Experiences in Simulating a Software Product Team for a MOOC

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a popular way for universities to deliver quality course content to a global audience, but is normally geared toward individual learners. On-campus courses, however, can allow for software projects involving team dynamics and dealing with customers and other stakeholders, but is limited in scale on the number of such instances. How can thousands of MOOC learners each appreciate the challenges of being a product manager working with a software development team? This paper describes a simulated environment and team to mimic these situations for a MOOC learner.