SCRUM applied to Problem-Based Learning: a hybrid model for managing the teaching-learning process

Abstract

This complete work on innovative practices, presents the proposal of a hybrid model between Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and the SCRUM agile project management framework, which seeks to facilitate the control and management of the teaching process, during the activities of students’ learning, in the face of difficulties still encountered such as: I. material support; II. students’ responsibility in the task; III. division of tasks; and IV. contribution and performance in tasks. We carried out a case study to validate the proposal, including SCRUM practices (such as the structure of the Daily Scrum), during the performance of PBL activities in an undergraduate class in Software Engineering, during the second semester of 2019. To investigate what was accomplished and discuss its results, we used the technique of Discourse of the Collective Subject (DCS) as a way to capture the impression of the students who participated in the study. Through the study of the resulting DCS, it was possible to identify that SCRUM practices enhanced the PBL process with regard to the control and management of teams in the projects developed in the discipline, which allowed us to conclude the adequacy of the proposed model and its potential to contribute to the student’s teaching-learning process.