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January 19, 2025
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Ball Point Game: Playing or Learning Agile Project Management?

Publicated to: IEEE Access. 13 135-148 - 2025-01-01 13(), DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3521237

Authors:

Fioravanti, ML; Avellar, GMN; Romeiro, BO; Rezende, BG; Barbosa, EF; Moreno, AM
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Affiliations

Mercado Livre Brasil, BR-06233903 Osasco, Brazil - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid UPM, ETSI Informat, Madrid 28660, Spain - Author
Univ Sao Paulo, ICMC, BR-13566590 Sao Carlos, Brazil - Author
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Abstract

Agile project management has become essential in modern enterprises, particularly in the software industry, due to its flexibility and adaptability. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the Ball Point Game (BPG), a non-digital serious game designed to teach Agile project management principles. The evaluation is based on three case studies conducted with undergraduate students at the University of S & atilde;o Paulo, aiming to explore the following aspects: ability to compare traditional methods and Agile methods; educational effectiveness, particularly regarding player experience and perceived learning; and skills development or improvement. The results indicate that the BPG effectively allows students to properly understand the pros and cons of Agile methodologies, fosters essential project management skills, and provides a positive and engaging learning experience. The BPG proved to be an effective tool for experiential learning by allowing students to go through all stages of the experiential learning cycle. This approach not only made learning more engaging, but also helped students develop essential skills for Agile project management. The study highlights the potential of educational games to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and hands-on activities, making them valuable tools in Agile management education. Our work has as novel element the integration of both game-based learning and experience-based learning approaches to teach Agile project management.
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Keywords

Agile management educationAgile project managementAgile software developmentCase studyCase-studiesCostsEducational gameEmpirical evaluationEmpirical evaluationsExperiential learningGame playingGamesIndustriesInstrumentsLean productionManagement educationProject managementSchedulesSkill developmentSkills developmentSoftwareSoftware engineering educatioSoftware engineering educationStudentsTrainingUsability

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal IEEE Access due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering (Miscellaneous).

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-27:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 46.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 46 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/89307/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 176
  • Downloads: 127
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Brazil.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (FIORAVANTI, MARIA LYDIA) and Last Author (MORENO SANCHEZ-CAPUCHINO, ANA MARIA).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been FIORAVANTI, MARIA LYDIA.

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Awards linked to the item

This work was supported in part by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under Grant 2018/15163-6 and Grant 2022/01793-3, in part by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) under Grant 141010/2018-5, and in part by Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. The Article Processing Charge for the publicationof this research was also covered by CAPES (id ROR: 00x0ma614). For open access purposes, the authors have assigned the CreativeCommons CC BY license to any accepted version of the article.
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