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Tribal Capstone Project Course

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Frontiers in Software Engineering Education (FISEE 2023)

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Abstract

It has become common for curricula to contain a Capstone project component. Usually, the idea behind a capstone project course is to form groups of 4 to 6 students to work on a longer and larger project. This allows them to experience working for some months on ideas coming either from industry or from a professor. The intent is to make this experience more “real” than a traditional small project.

This article presents a new type of capstone projects, which we call “Tribal Capstone Project Course”. It takes a cohort of students over 3 semesters and makes them work in larger groups of 15–25 students called “tribes”. The course has run for two cohorts of masters students within the Constructor context and has started for a third cohort. We believe that this setup is more representative of a real-world product-building context.

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    https://harvard.simplesyllabus.com/en-US/doc/jw31lxh21, consulted last on December 2, 2022.

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    https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/current-students/degree/capstones, consulted last on December 2, 2022.

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    As explained by Atlassian https://www.atlassian.com/agile/agile-at-scale/spotify, consulted last on December 2, 2022.

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    https://bertrandmeyer.com/2013/09/30/the-laws-of-branching-part-1/.

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    https://www.mentimeter.com.

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    Manuel Oriol

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  1. University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Alfredo Capozucca

  2. University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Sophie Ebersold

  3. University of Toulouse, Blagnac, France

    Jean-Michel Bruel

  4. Constructor Institute, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

    Bertrand Meyer

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Oriol, M. (2023). Tribal Capstone Project Course. In: Capozucca, A., Ebersold, S., Bruel, JM., Meyer, B. (eds) Frontiers in Software Engineering Education. FISEE 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14387. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48639-5_3

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