Assessing the Maturity of Teamwork Capabilities through Capstone Project
Vu T. Truong, Bao N. Le, Man D. Nguyen · 2015
In this paper, using data collected during the deployment of Capstone Projects in the Software Engineering program of DTU at various stages, we measure, assess and analyze the maturity levels of our students' teamwork capabilities. Our measurement and assessment in this literature is based on an in-house rubric, which addresses key aspects of teamwork capabilities and outcomes along five dimensions of (1) Shared Leadership, (2) Team Orientation, (3) Effort Redundancy, (4) Learning Results, and (5) Team's Autonomy. In the scope of our rubric, besides a standard survey, we also hold focus group sessions to collect additional information from students about what they hope to improve on their teamwork capabilities and how they perceive their maturity in teamwork capabilities after each stage. Results from this study are of great interest to schools, which are looking for ways to fasten their students' teamwork maturity process and to balance out between the training of hard skills and soft skills.