Learning project planning the agile way

Teaching and learning software project management concepts using traditional plan-driven approaches to software development can be difficult. It is often necessary to define a waterfall style plan and follow this throughout a full development project. Students rarely have an opportunity to practice management activities. However, with agile approaches to software development the expectation is that a project plan will evolve, in response to change, while development progresses. This poster presents an overview of the Extreme Programming (XP) approach to project planning and observations and feedback from a project conducted by degree students.