Riskware: A Game for Teaching Software Project Risk Management

Authors

  • Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo
  • Maria Clara Gomez Alvarez
  • Guillermo Gonzalez-Calderon

Abstract

Risk can highly affect the management of software development projects, because risky situations commonly arise in this kind of projects. Well-known strategies for teaching software engineering are not enough for developing management skills of the students and, particularly, risk management is a difficult issue for practicing in the classroom. Since experience-based games have been successfully designed and applied to teaching, we propose in this paper riskware, an experience-based game for teaching and practicing risk management issues. We also apply the game to a group of undergraduate students belonging to the system engineering program. The results are promising and can be replicated to similar knowledge areas.

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