Alcançando maturidade ágil em um ambiente acadêmico de desenvolvimento de software

Abstract

The growing need for well-educated software development professionals is notorious in today’s information technology market. Therefore, it is indipensable that the institutions of higher education that have undergraduate courses in the area of Information Technology provide a training that instructs their graduates correctly through an experience closer to the job market. Many of the institutions use environments that simulate companies in the software industry as a way to prepare students with the most advanced systems development methodologies. The agile methodologies are in great focus at the present time and its main objective is the fast delivery of working software and greater adaptation to changes. However, it is not easy to apply such methodologies in organizations and especially in simulation environments created within the Institutions of Higher Education, because their students still do not have an advanced maturity. Therefore, it isnecessarythat anagile processisdefined, executed andevaluatedso thatthe level of agile maturity of the environment is satisfactory for the market. This paper presents a case studyforthedefinition,application,executionandmeasurementofanagileprocessinasoftware market simulation environment in a Higher Education Institution to more emphatically qualify the undergraduate student in Information Technology courses.