Making Team Projects with Novices More Effective: An Experience Report

Abstract

Computer Science Capstone projects have shifted to offer more opportunities for students to engage with stakeholders as a team to simulate a real-life work scenario. Most works focus on the class design modifications and requirements for both students and stakeholders. However, discussions on how said requirements are instantiated in a concrete software development process that can accommodate both students and stakeholders are only briefly presented, and challenges are presented from a class standpoint. This work provides an experience report of one project in the Information and Computer Sciences --- ICS 496 --- at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.