期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2009
卷号：6
页码：557-557
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：Software Engineering capstone projects have been running successfully since 2002 for the final
year software engineering (SE) students of the Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) Program
at Monash University, accredited by Engineers Australia and Australian Computer Society. Agile
methods are being increasingly adopted in the industry. In this paper, we describe the objectives of
SE capstone projects and report on how our innovative projects for supporting the software engineering
projects in undergraduate programs at Monash University have evolved and have been
scaled up to support agile SE capstone projects. We detail the evolution from our early innovative
software engineering projects in the mid 1990s that have served as catalysts for more innovation
in the early 2000, and for scaling up agile SE projects with increasing central technical infrastructure
support from the School. More recently, we have adapted our approach with a combination of
open-source and commercial tools under academic licence for developing and deploying these projects
effectively with agile distributed teams. The paper concludes with a discussion on lessons
learnt from our innovative projects in the mid 1990s and from the evolution in scaling up to agile
practices for the SE capstone projects from 2002-2008.
