Manager quest: jogo de tabuleiro para aprendizado e conceitos de gerência de projetos de software

Abstract

Software Project Management is an area of great importance for software development. Higher education courses focused on software development, such as Software Engineering and Computer Science, for example, have Software Project Management in their grades, but newly graduated professionals with little experience tend to have difficulty managing projects, mistakes made by these professionals in real projects can cost companies a lot of money and compromise entire projects, so there is a need to exercise Project Management concepts in a safe environment free of real failures, as well as to fix the theoretical concepts learned in the classroom. This work presents a game for learning and exercising concepts of Software Project Management, since educational games have been shown to be effective in learning in classrooms, the game in question is called Manager Quest. To carry out the data collection and evaluation of the game's performance in learning, the MEEGA+ questionnaire used by several other educational game projects for this purpose was used. The results obtained were promising, having as strengths the competitiveness among students, the fun of the game, and the approval of students for use in the classroom as a learning tool for this discipline. The users' feedback was productive and promotes improvements for possible future work.