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Enhancing Student Experience In Team-Based Project Courses Using Essence Reflection Meetings, Todd Sedano, Cécile Péraire

Cécile Péraire

Background: Many software engineering curriculum contain a team-based project course. This is the case of Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley’s masters of science in software engineering. In this context, we have been using Essence Reflection Meetings for five semesters with 17 teams and approximately 70 students. During these meetings, the teams reflect on various project’s dimensions based on a systems thinking framework. The positive results have been published in research papers.

Activity and Discussions: Participants will learn about Essence Reflection Meetings for team-based project courses by practicing in a classroom environment. They will discuss challenges and solutions for team-based project …

Using Essence Reflection Meetings In Team-Based Project Courses, Todd Sedano, Cécile Péraire

Cécile Péraire

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State-Based Monitoring And Goal-Driven Project Steering: Field Study Of The Semat Essence Framework, Cécile Péraire, Todd Sedano

Cécile Péraire

At Carnegie Mellon University in Silicon Valley, the graduate master program ends with a practicum project during which students serve as software engineering consultants for an industry client. In this context, students are challenged to demonstrate their ability to work on self-managing and self-organizing teams. This paper presents a field study of the Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) Essence framework. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Essence’s novel state-based monitoring and goal-driven steering approach provided by the Essence kernel alphas and their states. The researchers conducted the study on seven graduate master student teams applying the …

From Agile Methods To Lean Practices: Trends In Software Development, Cécile Péraire

Cécile Péraire

Since the ratification of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, agile methods such as Scrum and XP have become mainstream and proved their ability to shorten the software development lifecycle, raise quality and reduce costs. Hence the question: Is agile a "silver bullet" that can conquer the inherent complexity of software development? Based on current trends in the software industry, the answer to this question is "not quite". Given the vast spectrum of software development endeavors, one size does not fit all. Each organization or project team is unique and needs to identify a software development strategy that suits its own …

A Step Forward In Software Engineering Education: Introducing The Semat Essence Framework, Cécile Péraire

Cécile Péraire

There has been a rapid evolution of software engineering development methods over the last 20 years. From Iterative and Incremental to Agile and Lean, we have witnessed waves of new methods, each adding significant value to the field. However this evolution is also depicted as the "method war" with new comers trying to eradicate their predecessors, often re-inventing the wheels, and sometimes loosing knowledge. With a lack of common ground and credible experimental evaluation and validation, this pauses a challenge to educators. How do we select methods to teach? What terminology do we adopt? How do we respond to the …