Patent ID: 8533658

Claim:
A system for teaching software development processes, comprising: a simulation server that keeps track of a current state and time of a simulation of a software development process, and generates random and scenario-driven events in the simulation that simulate a project as part of the software development process, wherein the simulation server further includes a discrete event simulator that performs discrete event simulation, each discrete event that is simulated having a specified duration, by advancing a simulation clock through the specified duration; two or more simulation clients associated with two or more users, each simulation client including a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the current state of the simulation, enabling the associated user to perform simulated process actions as part of the simulation, and enabling the associated user to interact with other users to learn the software development process, wherein the discrete event simulator breaks up scenario-driven events generated by the two or more users or by the discrete event simulator into small discrete increments before processing the scenario-driven events, allowing the scenario-driven events to interrupt each other; and a network that facilitates communication between the simulation server and the two or more simulation clients.