Refine
Year of publication
- 2021 (5) (remove)
Document Type
- Conference Proceeding (3)
- Preprint (2)
Has Fulltext
- yes (5)
Is part of the Bibliography
- no (5)
Keywords
- Agilität <Management> (5) (remove)
Institute
This Innovative Practice Full Paper presents our learnings of the process to perform a Master of Science class with eduScrum integrating real world problems as projects. We prepared, performed, and evaluated an agile educational concept for the new Master of Science program Digital Transformation organized and provided by the department of business computing at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Hochschule Hannover in Germany. The course deals with innovative methodologies of agile project management and is attended by 25 students. We performed the class due the summer term in 2019 and 2020 as a teaching pair. The eduScrum method has been used in different educational contexts, including higher education. During the approach preparation, we decided to use challenges, problems, or questions from the industry. Thus, we acquired four companies and prepared in coordination with them dedicated project descriptions. Each project description was refined in the form of a backlog (list of requirements). We divided the class into four eduScrum teams, one team for each project. The subdivision of the class was done randomly.
Since we wanted to integrate realistic projects into industry partners’ implementation, we decided to adapt the eduScrum approach. The eduScrum teams were challenged with different projects, e.g., analyzing a dedicated phenomenon in a real project or creating a theoretical model for a company’s new project management approach. We present our experiences of the whole process to prepare, perform and evaluate an agile educational approach combined with projects from practice. We found, that the students value the agile method using real world problems. However, the results are mainly based on the summer term 2019, this paper also includes our learnings from virtual distance teaching during the Covid 19 pandemic in summer term 2020. The paper contributes to the distribution of methods for higher education teaching in the classroom and distance learning.
Agile Prozesse und zertifizierte Managementsysteme wirken anfänglich wie ein Widerspruch, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Steuerung des Prozessverlaufs sowie der Kontrolle beabsichtigter Ergebnisse. Doch ein wissenschaftlicher Blick auf etablierte Formen der Prozesssteuerung legte im Rahmen einer Masterarbeit offen, dass sich einheitliche Mechanismen dahinter verbergen, die auch auf agile Prozesse angewendet werden können. Fünf erkannte Prozesssteuerungsmechanismen geben dem Leser konkrete Ansatzpunkte zur ISO 9001-konformen Steuerung und Kontrolle agiler Prozesse.
Agility is considered the silver bullet for survival in the VUCA world. However, many organisations are afraid of endangering their ISO 9001 certificate when introducing agile processes. A joint research project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover and the DGQ has set itself the goal of providing more security in this area. The findings were based on interviews with managers and team members from various organisations of different sizes and industries working in an agile manner as well as on common audit practices and a literature analysis. The outcome presents a clear distinction of agility from flexibility as well as useful guidelines for the integration of agile processes in QM systems - for QM practitioners and auditors alike.
Agile methods require constant optimization of one’s approach and leading to the adaptation of agile practices. These practices are also adapted when introducing them to companies and their software development teams due to organizational constraints. As a consequence of the widespread use of agile methods, we notice a high variety of their elements:
Practices, roles, and artifacts. This multitude of agile practices, artifacts, and roles results in an unsystematic mixture. It leads to several questions: When is a practice a practice, and when is it a method or technique? This paper presents the tree of agile elements, a taxonomy of agile methods, based on the literature and guidelines of widely used agile methods. We describe a taxonomy of agile methods using terms and concepts of software engineering, in particular software process models. We aim to enable agile elements to be delimited, which should help companies, agile teams, and the research community gain a basic understanding of the interrelationships and dependencies of individual components of agile methods.
Viele Unternehmen experimentieren mit Agilität. Gleichzeitig ist die Unsicherheit groß, wieviel Agilität ein QM-System nach ISO 9001 tatsächlich verträgt. Ein gemeinsames Forschungsprojekt der Hochschule Hannover und der DGQ hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, hier mehr Sicherheit zu geben. Aus Interviews mit Vertretern von Unternehmen, welche teilweise agil arbeiten, entstanden Leitlinien für die Integration von agilen Vorgehensweisen in QM-Systeme und erstmals eine klare Definition von Agilität.