Scrum LPC - A Value-Based Framework for Learning Process Coaching.

To foster students’ agile process of learning in team and to pervade their own self-regulated and self-reflecting thriving process by value-based Scrum Learning Process Coaching is the motivation of the authors as researcher and practitioner in both software engineering and other STEM-education. This article describes the introduction the most famous Framework Scrum as an agile methodology, particular with regard to increase awareness of values. As a first step, it appears relevant to find out whether there exists a positive effect on the learning outcomes of participants in value-based scrum and what are the impacts of value-based support. The research question is as follows: Do team values in the frame of value-based Scrum Learning Process Coaching influence the performance of the students’ team? In order to answer the question an experimental study was conducted with students in German higher education of Software Engineering (N = 78). The research is qualified by using mixed methods. The authors use both questionnaires of the Team Climate Inventory for value education in teamwork and semi-structured interviews. Therefore, we research the impacts of using value-based Scrum Learning Process Coaching as a framework of agile self-regulated and more self-motivated learning. The results show that groups with dedicated values benefit from their intensive teamwork with higher performance and better grades. This study consider many articles describing the use of scrum teaching in Software Engineering establishing a virtual or real capstone project. However, there is no awareness yet, that Scrum Framework could be a sustainable self-development tool for an agile thriving mindset.