Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching
Location
CSU 201
Start Date
3-30-2018
End Date
3-30-2018
Description
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 faculty not only manage their time and projects but also foster productivity, balance, and personal and professional growth.
Rebecca Pope-Ruark is an associate professor of English at Elon University, where she coordinates the Professional Writing and Rhetoric program as well as the Design Thinking Studio in Social Innovation immersive semester pilot program. With research interests in Agile/Scrum as applied to student collaboration and faculty development, design thinking as pedagogy, and immersive community-based experiences, her pedagogical objective is to prepare students to be effective communicators and collaborators in the workplace and in their communities.
Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching (2017, University of Chicago Press)
Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching
CSU 201
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 faculty not only manage their time and projects but also foster productivity, balance, and personal and professional growth.
Rebecca Pope-Ruark is an associate professor of English at Elon University, where she coordinates the Professional Writing and Rhetoric program as well as the Design Thinking Studio in Social Innovation immersive semester pilot program. With research interests in Agile/Scrum as applied to student collaboration and faculty development, design thinking as pedagogy, and immersive community-based experiences, her pedagogical objective is to prepare students to be effective communicators and collaborators in the workplace and in their communities.
Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching (2017, University of Chicago Press)
