Book Title: Agile Mentoring
Subtitle: A Practical Method for Supervising Academic Theses
Book Description: At present, there is little material available to help both novice and experienced (university) instructors effectively supervise academic research, particularly theses. In many cases, thesis supervision becomes a protracted process that is frustrating for both instructors and students. This guide offers practical tips for optimizing this process by drawing on the agile methodology, which was developed in the business world. A pdf version of this book, available via the University of Groningen Press website will follow soon.
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Book Description
At present, there is little material available to help both novice and experienced (university) instructors effectively supervise academic research, particularly theses. In many cases, thesis supervision becomes a protracted process that is frustrating for both instructors and students. This guide offers practical tips for optimizing this process by drawing on the agile methodology, which was developed in the business world.
A pdf version of this book, available via the University of Groningen Press website will follow soon.
Copy editing: Julia Zim Amaro
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This book is a cloned version of Agile Mentoring by Laura Peters, published using Pressbooks by University of Groningen Press under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
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Agile Mentoring Copyright © 2026 by Laura Peters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Science: general issues
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Agile Mentoring Copyright © 2026 by Laura Peters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.