Agile in universities

January 1, 2009 by Artem Marchenko

Last week I was giving a presentation on Agile in my Alma Mater in Ukraine. That was a very interesting event and I was positively surprised to see many 3rd year students interested much in the ways for effective software development. Here are the presentation slides published via slideshare (I changed two photos just in case they were a bit too sensitive for the corporate security):

This particular group already knew basics of Agile so we went into deeper reasons for spending time on learning Agile, its reasons and consequences. It is quite interesting to note, that all the Agile teaching (including my presentation) seemed to be based on the initiative of a single teacher and couple of times I’ve heard comments such as “that is what you [students] should have been taught on a course X". That made me wonder about the state of art in the universities.

Dear readers, if you are staying in touch with the technical universities (or are students yourself), please share your thoughts about how much agile methods are being taught nowadays in your country.

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