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A Board Game to Teach Team Composition in Software Startups

Authors : Jorge Melegati, Eduardo Guerra, Igor Knop, Xiaofeng Wang

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Startup education presence in Computer Science and Software Engineering curriculum has risen in the recent years. Currently, most reported courses focus on teaching innovation and business techniques and try to emulate real-world projects to convey the content. They have not focused on team composition which is a critical element for the success of startups since missing human capital increases the uncertainty involved in the process. In this paper, based on a literature review, we present a set of concepts about software startups team composition to be explored in a course. We also present a board game as a supplementary tool to convey these concepts. To evaluate the tool, we placed students in an artificial learning environment where they watched a video lesson about the topics and played the game. Then, participants answered a questionnaire about motivation, user experience, and perception of learning. The results indicate a first evidence of the value of the tool inducing a positive effect on learning as perceived by students.

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Title: A Board Game to Teach Team Composition in Software Startups
Authors: Jorge Melegati
Eduardo Guerra
Igor Knop
Xiaofeng Wang
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Software Business
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-33741-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-33742-1

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33742-1_25

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