Shall We Play a Game?

Shall We Play a Game?

This paper presents the results of a qualitative research project that used a simple game of a software project to see if and how games could contribute to better software project management education, and, if so, what features would make them most efficacious. The results suggest that while games a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Modern applied science 2012-01, Vol.6 (1), p.2-2
Hauptverfasser: Caulfield, Craig, Maj, Stanislaw Paul, Xia, Jianhong, Veal, David
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