Case Study: Technische Universität München achieves scalable, industry-ready hands-on software engineering education with Atlassian

Atlassian enables state-of-the-art computer science education at TUM

Technische Universität München (TUM), a leading science and technology university in Munich, wanted to move beyond traditional lecture halls and give Software Engineering students real-world, hands-on experience. Instructors Dora Dzvonyar and Lukas Alperowitz designed a client-driven course to better prepare students for employment by having them apply theory through team projects.

They used Atlassian tools—Bitbucket for branching and pull requests, Jira Software with a Kanban board to monitor progress, and Confluence for documentation—to organize and scale the 100‑student course, with student assistants supporting distributed code reviews. The program increased motivation and collaboration and produced clear results: 11 mobile apps, 72 sprints, over 4,300 commits, 1,100 pull requests and 130 customer downloads, while building a permanent knowledge base in Confluence.

Technische Universität München

Dora Dzvonyar

Chair for Applied Software Engineering