A capstone course on agile software development using scrum

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-106

  Mahnic, Viljan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Agile software development; capstone course; effort estimation; Scrum; software engineering education

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CAPSTONE COURSE; EFFORT ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; PROJECT DOMAIN; SCRUM; USER STORIES;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84857029830     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2011.2142311     Document Type: Review

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