Agile Model Adaptation for e-Learning Students Final Year Project

Final Year Project (FYP) is considered as an essential part of computer science degree. FYP plays a key role in preparing the students to meet the industrial expectations. In E-Learning scenario lack of coordination among students and limited student-supervisor interaction often leads to poor quality projects and inadequate learning. To enhance students' skills and quality of the projects this paper suggests a hybrid approach for the FYP. The proposed approach recommends the use of waterfall model for the first phase of the FYP and the agile-scrum model for the development phase. The effectiveness of the hybrid approach on student project quality and E-learning has been compared with the in-practice waterfall model at Virtual University of Pakistan (VU). The proposed model has increased students' involvement, coordination and student-supervisor interaction in FYP.