Exploratory study on the implementation of two software development methodologies in a school context

Abstract

Currently, higher education institutions have the challenge of recreating real scenarios of the labor field, so students of the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems Engineering, need to generate the necessary skills in the development of methodologies for the creation of software. This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study on the selection, implementation and reflection of a traditional and an agile methodology in software development teams of school projects. For this purpose, an instrument was constructed with relevant indicators, obtained from a systematic literature review. The results obtained show that the projects developed under the traditional methodology with the Waterfall model present a predominantly intermediate performance, where critical self-evaluation and the production of evidence or artifacts remained at low values, reflecting limitations in the feedback and formalization of the process. The projects managed with the agile methodology under the Scrum framework achieved better results in most of the evaluated criteria, however, areas for improvement were identified in the comparison with Waterfall and in the generation of evidence or documentation, where the scores were concentrated in medium levels.