Agile Faculty : Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching / Rebecca Pope-Ruark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pope-Ruark, Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching.

Universities and colleges--Faculty.

Universities and colleges.

Project management.

Agile software development.

Scrum (Computer software development).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Digital tools have long been a transformative part of academia, enhancing the classroom and changing the way we teach. Yet there is a way that academia may be able to benefit more from the digital revolution: by adopting the project management techniques used by software developers. Agile work strategies are a staple of the software development world, developed out of the need to be flexible and responsive to fast-paced change at times when "business as usual" could not work. These techniques call for breaking projects into phases and short-term goals, managing assignments collectively, and tracking progress openly. Agile Faculty is a comprehensive roadmap for scholars who want to incorporate Agile practices into all aspects of their academic careers, be it research, service, or teaching. Rebecca Pope-Ruark covers the basic principles of Scrum, one of the most widely used models, and then through individual chapters shows how to apply that framework to everything from individual research to running faculty committees to overseeing student class work. Practical and forward-thinking, Agile Faculty will help readers not only manage their time and projects but also foster productivity, balance, and personal and professional growth.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

1. Reimagining Paths to Faculty Vitality in Higher Education

2. Working the Agile Way Using Scrum

3. Organizing and Prioritizing Your Personal Research Agenda

4. Running a Collaborative Research Project or Program

5. Leading Effective Agile Committees

6. Mentoring Students and Peers with Agile Activities

7. Organizing Your Course as an Epic

8. Planning and Implementing Scrum- Based Group Projects

Afterword: Imagining the Agile College and University

Wrapping Up

References

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226463292

022646329X

OCLC:

1011673672