Abstract
Agile Methods, like Extreme Programming, have increasingly become a viable alternative for conducting software projects, especially for projects with a very short time-to-market or uncertain customer-requirements. Using a technique called Agile Hours it is possible to convey many feelings associated with an Extreme Programming project. Within 70 minutes, a project is performed in which a product is built with Lego bricks. We applied this approach to (1) students and (2) IT professionals. By comparing the two groups, we found that both behaved comparable: we observed a number of interesting differences, although of minor importance. Both groups seemed to benefit from the Agile (Lego) Hours.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Beck, K.: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, p. 224. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading (1999)
Goetz, R.: How Agile Processes Can Help in Time-Constrained Requirements Engineering. In: TCRE 2002, Essen, Germany (2002)
Kent Beck, M.B., van Bennekum, A., Cockburn, A., Cunningham, W., Fowler, M., Grenning, J., Highsmith, J., Hunt, A., Jeffries, R., Kern, J., Marick, B., Martin, R.C., Mellor, S., Schwaber, K., Sutherland, J., Thomas, D.: Manifesto for Agile Software Development (2001), http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
Dietmar Rohrbach, P.D.M.A.: Realisierung und Pflege von vier Versicherungs produkten. In: Informatik 2004 - Informatik verbindet, Ulm, Germany (2004)
Martin Lippert, S.R., Wolf, H.: Software entwickeln mit eXtreme Programming. dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg, p. 282 (2002)
Wright, K.: XP success story: CodeFab develops for Noggin (2002), http://builder.com.com/5100-6374_14-1046489-1-1.html
Mentor, O.: Success Story: How Scrum + XP changed Primavera (2004), http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/Primavera
Ron Jeffries, A.A., Hendrickson, C., Jeffries, R.E.: Extreme Programming Installed, p. 288. Addison-Wesley Professional, Reading (2000)
Merel, P.: Extreme Hour (2004), http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeHour
Royce, W.: Managing the Development of Large Software Systems. In: IEEE WESCON (1970)
Versteegen, G.: Das V-Modell 1997 in der Praxis, p. 442. dpunkt.verlag (1999)
IABG, Das V-Modell (2004)
Silicon Valley Patterns Group, Silicon Valley Extreme Hour (2005), http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SiliconValleyExtremeHour
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Lübke, D., Schneider, K. (2005). Agile Hour: Teaching XP Skills to Students and IT Professionals. In: Bomarius, F., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3547. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11497455_40
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11497455_40
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-26200-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-31640-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)