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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Bonuses and Software Projects

At today's CS Education Reading Group, one of our group members led us through an exercise about group work from "Students' cooperation in teamwork: binding the individual and the team interests" by Orit Hazzan and Yael Dubinsky.

It's an in-class activity to get students thinking about how they work together in software projects. Students are given a scenario: you'll be on a software team. If the project completes early, the team gets a bonus. How should the bonus be allocated?
  1. 100% of the bonus should be shared equally

  2. 80% should be for the team to share; 20% should go to the top contributor
  3. 50% team, 50% individual
  4. 80% team, 20% individual
  5. 0% team, 100% to the individual who contributed the most