Empowering Students and the Community through Agile Software Development Service-Learning

This paper describes an approach to service-learning in the software engineering classroom that involves a central clearinghouse and maintenance center for service-learning project requests, use of Agile methods, and collaboration with a technical communication course. The paper describes the benefits and drawbacks to service-learning in a software engineering course, rationale behind using Agile, the course layout, specifics of the collaboration, the final feedback of the community partners and students involved, and a discussion of lessons learned.