50. Using Big Data, Internet of Things, and Agile for Crises Management

This paper describes the use of Scrum Agile Method in a collaborative software project named Big Data, Internet of Things, and Agile for Accidents and Crises (BD-ITAC). It applies the Scrum agile method and its best practices, the Hadoop ecosystem, and cloud computing for the management of emergencies, involving monitoring, warning, and prevention. It reports the experience of students from three different courses on the graduate program in Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica – ITA), during the first semester of 2016. The major contribution of this work is the application of an interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning, where students have worked asynchronously and geographically dispersed to deliver valuable increments. This work was performed during four project sprints on just sixteen academic weeks. The main project output was a working, developed, and tested software. During all project, a big data environment was used, as a transparent way to fulfill the needs for alerts and crises management.