Course Description from the University Catalog

CS 6900 - Project
Credits: 3.00
Course designed for special project work under the supervision of the student's graduate committee chair. May be repeated with a change in subject matter to a total of six hours.
Other: 3.00
College: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Computer Science
Pre-requisites: See hard copy catalog for pre-requisites

Project Information

The purpose of this project has been to assess whether or not the Scrum process, an “iterative incremental framework for managing complex work” in software engineering, can be used successfully in a classroom setting.  Due to the nature of this being applied in a classroom this is as much of a computer science education project as it is a software engineering project.  This project was initially conceived of as a topic candidate for a thesis, but circumstances necessitated the conversion to a project.  Several topics were covered in this project:

• What is Scrum?
• The Original Prospectus
• Divergence from the Original Prospectus
• Data from the Course
• Effects
• Resources Developed
• Conclusion(s)
• Several Appendices

The project proposal document and the project write-up are both available in the project artifacts section.

Project Artifacts

• The project proposal document is Available Here.
  
  
• The project write-up is Available Here.
  
  
• Resources I developed for the course:
• Lecture on Scrum
  
  
• Lecture on Good Programming Practices in Java
  
  
• Example Eclipse Java Project with good programming practices in use

Project Assessment

the project marked the culmination of the work I have done during my time in this program.  My primary focusses have been software engineering and computer science education and this project serves as a functional booked for my tenure at UWG as a computer science student.  Dr. Lloyd served as an excellent supervisor for this project as it was done in his class and his teaching interests mirror my own.


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