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