Applying the SCRUM methodology to the operations and technology strategy subject of the university master in business administration (MBA)

Abstract

[EN] The objective of this article is to present a process of applying the SCRUM methodology to practical lab classes in the Operations and Technology Strategy subject of the University Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the Higher Polytechnic School of Alcoy, which belongs to the Universitat Politécnica de València (UPV). To do so, the MBA Degree was globally analysed. Next the teaching programme was proposed for the corresponding subject. This contextualised the subject in the syllabus underway by focusing on skills, and on coordinating and organising the subject and teaching-learning methodologies. Next the syllabus, the teaching programme of theoretical/practical classes, the material resources and the evaluation system were proposed. The SCRUM methodology was applied to encourage the relative efficiency of practical lab classes, whose ultimate objective was to develop a collaborative project to create the operations strategy of a new business idea.