Agile Manifesto in Higher Education

Abstract

Present mass education system that can best be described using the factory metaphor is witnessing criminal wastage of resources. Despite of regulatory framework and accreditation mechanism, the quality in mass higher education system in India still remains elusive. We observe that Lean and Agile practices that have met with great success in manufacturing and software industry can offer few of their practices to higher education in order to reduce the wastage. In this paper we have reflected on some of the current practices in higher education and proposed an Agile Manifesto for education on the lines of Agile Manifesto in the software development. The paper puts forward a novel idea of how we can improve the quality and productivity in education sector by practicing the agile manifesto with the help of ICT.