Teaching Agile the Agile Way — Employing Self-Organizing Teams in a University Software Engineering Course
Christoph Matthies, Thomas Kowark, Matthias Uflacker · 2024
Thomas Kowark is a former member of the HPI research school on "Service-oriented Systems Engineering" and now a researcher at the "Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts" group.After completing both the Bachelor's and the Master's program at HPI he decided to continue with his Ph.D. studies at this institute, but broadened the focus from a completely technical to a more design research driven level.His main focus is the replicability of software repository data analysis.He furthermore is involved in various teaching activities, for example as a teaching assistant in a software engineering lecture.There he is responsible for organizing an exercise that has all 80 students of the lecture develop a single system in a joint effort.Furthermore, he is responsible for organizing the ME310/SUGAR lecture (http://sugar-network.org)at the EPIC chair and also serves as a teacher in that course.