Teaching project management in a virtual environment: The Virtual Scrum Simulator (ScrumSim)

Examining and Comparing the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Serious Games and LEGO Serious Play for Learning Scrum

“…Although previous works examined the use of virtual reality serious games for learning Scrum [19][20][21][22][23][24], as well as the use of LEGO Serious Play for this same purpose [35,[37][38][39][40][41][42], to the knowledge of the authors this is the first work that performed a comparison between these two game-based learning approaches. Therefore, this article makes a novel contribution by providing, for the first time, evidence on the learning effectiveness of virtual reality serious games compared to LEGO Serious Play.…”

“…In addition to ScrumVR, other virtual reality serious games aimed to teach the Scrum framework have been reported in the literature [22][23][24]. In the game presented by Caserman et al [22], the player controls a Scrum Master that must guide their team throughout a Sprint.…”

“…However, a full implementation or validation of this system was not reported in that work. In a more recent work, Visescu et al [24] presented ScrumSim, a multiplayer simulation in which players, with the assistance of two avatars who play the roles of the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, interact with a virtual reality environment, perform tasks, and receive feedback on their performance. Although ScrumSim has been used in real-world settings, a formal evaluation has not yet been reported.…”

“…As described in the previous subsections, virtual reality serious games [19][20][21][22][23][24] and LEGO Serious Play activities [35,[37][38][39][40][41][42] have been used to deliver Scrum training. Moreover, other noteworthy alternatives have been used for this purpose, including serious video games not based on virtual reality [43][44][45], physical games [46][47][48], agile project management tools [49], and classroom exercises [50].…”