Stephan Krusche, Christian Lescher, Bernd Bruegge (March 03, 2016) Teaching Global Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom 2 Dr. Yang Li Dr. Christian Lescher Prof. Bernd Bruegge Stephan Krusche Chair for Applied Software Engineering Technical University of Munich
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom • Global software engineering (GSE) is a key to the success in today’s software industry • GSE has however brought challenges to development teams • Communication and organization across sites becomes more difficult when the team size grows • Requirements, architecture and changes to these need to be communicated across sites • Delay is often introduced with distributed work items • Cultural and language problems ➡Question: How to equip students in university with GSE knowledge and skills? Culture & Language Employees Requirements Organization Time Management Communication Architecture Success Factors for GSE Projects Source: C. Lescher , R. Lochner [8] Challenges for GSE projects Motivation 3
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom 4 Idea: Simulate GSE projects in the class room Project A Project B Project C Project D São Paulo Site Munich Site Mumbai Site
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom GSE Exercise Design 10 Scenario 1: Define Responsibilities Scenario 2: MyVoice Pricing Model Scenario 3: Scaling Up Exercise Introduction Retrospective
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom GSE Exercise Introduction • The Project VoiceBox was just initiated with the goal to integrate an existing product, Dropbox, with a new feature, voice control • To gather domain expertise in the new voice control technology, the company recently acquired the supplier company MyVoice in São Paulo • Main development happens in Munich and Mumbai • Munich has rich knowledge about Dropbox features and previous development • The Mumbai team has good coders who are inexperienced with Dropbox 11
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Constraints for the GSE exercise • Employees may not leave their site • Exception: each project has one liaison from the Munich site, who can travel to the other sites and talk to the developers during local business hours • Project teams can select their communication mechanism (phones, Skype, and chat), but employees can respond only during local business hours • Teams document meetings and deliverables in Confluence (Wiki) • Teams can request to get extra hours after usual business hours 12
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom 13 Scenario I: Define Responsibilities 10 am Munich 1:30 pm Mumbai 5am São Paulo • At the headquarter in Munich, the team first specifies the requirements • Munich meets with Mumbai to discuss requirements, architecture & responsibilities of each site • Open questions to the São Paulo site are collected for the next scenario z z Z Duration: 20min in reality = 4h in the given scenario
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom 14 Scenario II: MyVoice Pricing Model 2 pm Munich 5:30 pm Mumbai 9 am São Paulo • The pricing model of MyVoice is introduced which led to changes in requirements and architecture • The São Paulo site receives the questions and answers them with their expertise right away • Requirements, architecture and responsibilities are refined based on new information about MyVoice Duration: 20min in reality = 4h in the given scenario
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom 15 Scenario III: Scaling Up Duration: 20min in reality = 4h in the given scenario ??am/pm Munich ??am/pm Mumbai ??am/pm São Paulo • The Munich headquarter identified new requirements for VoiceBox to support increasing business • Munich and Mumbai hold a meeting to address the new requirements into the development • They refine requirements, architecture and responsibilities, São Paulo answers questions
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Evaluation with Online Questionnaire • About 100 students participated in the GSE exercise in July 10, 2015 • ~ 2/3 were master students (graduates), ~1/3 were bachelor students (undergraduates) • Online Questionnaire to evaluate the learning experience 1 week later • 5 statements about the exercise addressing key challenges with Likert scale answer possibilities (strongly disagree, disagree, neutral, agree, strongly agree) • 56 responses 17
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Finding (1) 18 The exercise addressed the challenge that it is difficult to coordinate time in global projects 0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 % 2 % 4 % 11 % 50 % 34 % Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Finding (2) 19 The exercise addressed the challenge that there is communication overhead in global projects 0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 % 2 % 5 % 18 % 52 % 23 % Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Finding (3) 20 The exercise addressed the challenge that there is a lack of informal communication in global projects 0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 % 2 % 5 % 23 % 43 % 27 % Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Finding (4) 21 The exercise addressed the challenge that it is difficult to communicate changing requirements in global projects 0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 % 0 % 11 % 23 % 45 % 21 % Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Finding (5) 22 The exercise addressed the challenge that expertise is not shared with relevant stakeholders in global projects 0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 % 2 % 16 % 18 % 46 % 18 % Strongly agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Lessons Learned for the instructors of the exercise • Define the project context precisely • Plan enough time for the exercises and the retrospective • Use multiple projectors, distribute key slides as PDF before class and distribute exercise material on paper • The exercise can be tailored for multiple curriculum designs with different focuses • Privacy is important in industry, but not for the communication tools in the GSE exercise in the classroom 23
Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom Conclusion • Simulating GSE exercises in the class room is possible • Anecdotal evidence: Our proposed exercise addresses key GSE challenges • The awareness of student towards GSE increases • Areas to improve in the future: • Precisely define task instructions • Improve time management 24
Yang Li, Stephan Krusche, Christian Lescher, Bernd Bruegge (March 03, 2016) Teaching Global Software Engineering by Simulating a Global Project in the Classroom
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