TY - GEN A1 - Schubanz, Mathias A1 - Lewerentz, Claus ED - Krusche, Stephan ED - Wagner, Stefan T1 - What Matters to Students - A Rationale Management Case Study in Agile Software Development T2 - SEUH 2020: Software Engineering im Unterricht der Hochschulen : Tagungsband des 17. Workshops "Software Engineering im Unterricht der Hochschulen" 2020$dInnsbruck, Österreich, 26.-27.02.2020 N2 - Documenting design decisions and their rationale (Design Rationale, DR) in software development projects is vital for supporting the comprehension of the product, product quality, and future maintenance. Although an increasing number of research publications address this topic, systematic approaches and supporting DR tools are found very rarely in practice. In software engineering education, DR is usually not well covered in teaching. The lack of suitable decision documentation is mainly an issue in agile software development. In agile approaches, documentation is regarded as less important than working products. To explore possibilities for integrating decision documentation into Scrum processes for educational software development projects, we conducted a series of eight case studies. These were part of software lab courses in three universities, i.e., BTU Cottbus, PUT Poznan, University of Stuttgart, with about 400 participants in 82 project teams. We introduced additional process elements in Scrum and developed a lightweight capture technique to support the decision capture. This paper describes the case study setup and corresponding implementation and, thus, an example approach of managing rationale in Scrum. Additionally, it presents a data analysis of the students’ most relevant decisions documented throughout the case studies. We conclude the paper with a discussion on the observations we made during the case study executions and the applicability of the approach in educational software projects. KW - rationale management KW - agile software development KW - scrum KW - teaching KW - case study KW - decision types KW - design decision Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338533856_What_Matters_to_Students_-_A_Rationale_Management_Case_Study_in_Agile_Software_Development SP - 17 EP - 26 PB - RWTH CY - Aachen ER -