The Impact of Agility on a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science

Carol A. Wellington, T. Briggs, Clément Girard · 2006

Shippensburg University offers a computer science degree with the choice of five concentrations including software engineering. We first introduced agility as an XP component in part of our two-semester product development sequence. Within the software engineering concentration, agile concepts spread into our course on software metrics and process management. With that experience, our faculty have become interested in including agile concepts into other courses. This paper describes how a number of our undergraduate courses, the content of our computer science core, and our department's general health have been affected by agile techniques and philosophies

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