RED Innovation: Using Scrum to Develop an Agile Department

RED Innovation: Using Scrum to Develop an Agile Department

The next generation of engineers needs advanced technical and professional skills to tackle the ever-increasingly complex engineering problems facing our world. Changes to engineering departments' operations, curriculum and teaching practices are expected to better prepare students for the profession. Efforts to implement these changes are often slow due to department cultures or faculty attitudes about the amount of time and work involved. EECS embarked on a journey to implement an innovative approach and aspires to become a department that quickly responds to student and industry needs. This approach applies agile development methods typically used in industry to for fast delivery of best quality products. Agile methods involve working on teams in short development cycles, which allow shared work responsibility, frequent feedback and adjustments between cycles. EECS uses the Scrum agile process to organize how it performs the department operations.

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