Next semester I'll be teaching a course where we constitute our senior majors as a software development house, working in groups of three or so on projects that faculty in other departments have proposed. The students are competent programmers, but generally have little serious software development experience.

As the Department theorist, it's been a long time since I've worked in a professional environment, so my knowledge is decades out of date.

Would a request for methodology suggestions or development tools be appropriate here or would such questions be more appropriate on another site?