Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Gamifying the Escape from the Engineering Method Prison - An Innovative
  Board Game to Teach the Essence Theory to Future Project Managers and
  Software Engineers   Software Engineering is an engineering discipline but lacks a solid
theoretical foundation. One effort in remedying this situation has been the
SEMAT Essence specification. Essence consists of a language for modeling
Software Engineering (SE) practices and methods and a kernel containing what
its authors describe as being elements that are present in every software
development project. In practice, it is a method agnostic project management
tool for SE Projects. Using the language of the specification, Essence can be
used to model any software development method or practice. Thus, the
specification can potentially be applied to any software development context,
making it a powerful tool. However, due to the manual work and the learning
process involved in modeling practices with Essence, its initial adoption can
be tasking for development teams. Due to the importance of project management
in SE projects, new project management tools such as Essence are valuable, and
facilitating their adoption is consequently important. To tackle this issue in
the case of Essence, we present a game-based approach to teaching the use
Essence. In this paper, we gamify the learning process by means of an
innovative board game. The game is empirically validated in a study involving
students from the IT faculty of University of Jyv\"askyl\"a (n=61). Based on
the results, we report the effectiveness of the game-based approach to teaching
both Essence and SE project work.

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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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