A CSCW and project management tool for learning software engineering

We present PEASE, a web-enabled, process-aware, combined CSCW/project management tool. PEASE is a special-purpose tool that is tailored for the learning methodology EASE. It fosters collaborative learning by strictly supporting the EASE practices. PEASE relies on an versioning data model that enables collective ownership and artifact orientation. Based on that data model, PEASE implements a set of intuitive dialogues that structure the work into fast iterations and tracking activities. Thereby the tool leads the user through the EASE concepts like checkpoints, fixed total number of hours or small changing groups. This makes possible a jump start to EASE. Violations of EASE data constraints are detected and statistical information is displayed. This helps in project tracking. PEASE is integrated with an EASE knowledge base.

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