Applying mindstorm in teaching and learning process and software project management

Abstract

Some problems related to software process and project management improvement programs are detected during their implementation. Companies from the software projects segment have difficulty dealing with software Project management and quality models (CMMI, MPS-BR and PM-BOK) since the ways to implement the key areas of the process and the good practices inherent to Project management are interpreted with difficulty. This can be attested by the analysis of CMMI and CHAOS reports. In order to minimize the difficulties detected by the reports, the aim of this paper is to apply Mindstorms to the teaching and learning of software process and project management (key concepts used during process improvement and implementation). To validate the efficacy of the technique introduced in this paper, 8 experiments were carried out including university, high school courses and companies from the software production sector. Experimental results attest that the process of knowledge transfer in process and management using Mindstorms led to greater motivation, satisfaction and concepts consolidation.