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<aside> 📌 Create a tool to support students during group programming projects utilizing Agile and Scrum concepts.

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My goal is to create a tool that will:

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Help Students
- Positive experience with Agile/Scrum and group work
- Understand not just how, but why Agile and other tools Stellman & Greene, 2014
- Helps students follow Agile and Scrum principles
- Prepare for entry into industry jobs
- Increase team accountability to motivate all team members to participate
Help Instructors
- Manage a course where there may be several independent teams working concurrently on unrelated projects
  - Tracking, Maintaining, and Grading
- Provide feedback to students to increase knowledge and skills
Avoids unnecessary/complex setup/maintenance
The tool is easy to use
Maintains a free model to ensure students can utilize the tool without cost or having to request special education exceptions
- Bruckman et al., 2009
- Coates et al., 2005
Focuses on only the important parts of Agile/Scrum/etc. </aside>

My goal is not:

To create the best tool out there but to create the best tool I can
Solve all the problems that exist as some solutions to some problems will impact others and some problems are better solved by other tools

Dissemination of research in an area that has a lot of related publications but not a lot of direct research.
An intentionally designed tool that:
- can be utilized at any institution.
- supports students during group programming projects utilizing Agile and Scrum concepts.
- helps students understand not just how, but why Agile and other tools (Stellman & Greene, 2014).

Students
- First time:
  - Never been exposed to Agile/etc. concepts before
  - This might be their first group programming project
  - This might be their first project spanning multiple files
  - This might be their first project where they need to work on it for more than a week
- Not first time (e.g., capstone courses):
  - May have been exposed to Agile concepts before
  - May have utilized other Agile tools or project management tools.
Instructors
- Guidance surrounding Agile is expected to be provided by the tool.
- Project Length:
  - The project assigned is expected to be worked on across several weeks.
  - The project may span a full semester or two
- Instructor check in:
  - The teams will check in with the instructor regularly (~weekly)
  - The teams will check in with the tool and the instructors will have access.