Teaching software project management using agile paradigm

Agile software engineering methods have recently emerged as a new and different way of developing software as compared to the traditional methodologies. Universities already started to teach agile software engineering, courses on agile methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels however the correct teaching approach is still under research. This study is addressing the problem of agile teaching, its efficiency as perceived by academics and students and finally how the future software developers will acquire the skills required by the software industry. In order to answer to this question a survey was done among current and former computer science students, gathering data from 200 students that attended university in the past 5 years. Most of these students have previously attended a course meant to teach agile methods through the completion of a capstone project and they were required to provide feedback regarding their views on the agile methods used as well as the method of teaching.