Using Scrum and Wikis to manage student major projects

Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Information Technology (IT) students are not adequately exposed to implementing a software development methodology or a project management framework to develop software as per the current curriculum. The students' final year Project Work was selected to apply an industry-oriented Agile software development methodology. Specifically, we employed the most popular Agile project management and development framework called Scrum. Wiki pages were used to convey our expectations to students regarding project work. They were used as a collaborative tool by the team members during project implementation. In this paper, we present our experiences and lessons learned from applying the Scrum framework and using a collaborative Web 2.0 tool called Wikispaces in managing students' major projects.