From Assignment 1

In this paper, the authors sent a voluntary survey to the students who had just completed the course “Software Development Process Models” at the University of Memphis in 2005. As the researchers only received six responses, there was a limited analysis done on the results.

While it is difficult to draw any conclusions from this paper, it does point towards pair programming being helpful to students.  This is the second paper to state this result so the key takeaway is to keep this concept in mind when designing features of the website.

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agile methods focus on adapting a plan as it is executed

Agile methods also focus more on working code and less on traditional documentation.

iterative cycles, incremental delivery, self-organizing teams, and emergent processes, principles, and work structures

students who worked in pairs, “passed 15% more of the instructor’s test cases,”

Takeaways