FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE DURING THE PROJECT-FOCUSED LEARNING IN TERMS OF USING SCRUM METHODOLOGY

Abstract

The practical experience of formation of professional competence of students of Kharkiv computer-technological college of National Technical University ”Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” in terms of using Scrum methodology is considered. The application of this methodology took place during the training of future technicians-programmers. The Scrum methodology was successfully integrated into project-based learning. The owner of the software product was the head of practice, who developed the terms of reference. During the lessons, mini-groups were formed consisting of a Scrum master, a web developer, a tester, who before starting the development process estimated the number of hours required to complete the project. Students developed an information website for a month. The group project consisted of four sprints of one week each. Under the leadership of the Scrum master, short daily meetings were held at which each development participant reported on the amount of work performed. Adjustment and direction of the team's activities in a single direction, setting priorities, focusing on certain types of work, timely identified problems, improved team spirit and communication in the team. At the end of the week there was an hour-long meeting called retrospective, during which the team reported on the successes and failures of the current week, discussed the action plan for the next week. The analysis of the work was carried out with the help of the Scrum Board and the corresponding diagrams. At the end of each week, the teacher conducted on going monitoring of the project task, made the necessary comments and suggestions. After the successful completion of the project task, the students had a successful presentation of the developed projects. The head of the practice put the final assessment of each mini-group. As a result, such features of professional communicative competence as the ability to use the norms of business communication, to work in a team, to establish favourable communication, the ability to defend their opinions, to choose their own communication strategy were formed.