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Organizing excursions or afternoon snacks, putting together a team of the most fashionable online game as well as studying in groups and many other things are common activities among young people. Such activities are framed in a project, since they all have a defined time framework, they have limited resources that need to be managed and they set goals that must be met. However, according to our professional experience in university subjects related to IT projects management, teaching this module is difficult because it is taught in the last courses of their degrees and students may reach this level with bad acquired habits. For this reason, we have set out two objectives to carry out this work: On the one hand, to identify everyday activities where we usually apply project management skills without being aware of it. We aim to show our future students the use of good project management practices, following the Project Management Fundamentals Guide (PMBOK® Guide) of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and how to apply them. In this case, we have taken the organization of a barbecue as an example. Thus, the new university student will learn that questions such as where and when will it take place? how many people will be there? what will we bring? among others, hide good project management practices. Young people know more about project management than they think they know. Therefore, bringing this knowledge to light will help them manage a project, naturally and unconsciously, when they reach university degrees. For this purpose, we will display simple techniques and tools in order to make a barbecue be a successful event. On the other hand, to make teachers, both university and nonuniversity, aware of the importance of incorporating basic concepts related to project management, in an entertaining and motivating way, in the early stages of students’ education.

Blockchain technology promises to spark a real revolution. One of most important concepts associated with this technology is smart contracts, which enable the automatic execution of agreements and augur a world without intermediaries. The conditions and rules of “contracts” are established in a computer codes and trust is enforced by consensus among the participants. One relevant feature associated with smart contract is the immutability property, which establishes the non-alteration of blockchain network data after the clauses of the contract are been approved by all parties or entities involved. For this reason, smart contract development requires more effort and care than the development of other common programs. They require systematic mechanisms to collect requirements and functional specifications. In addition, it is necessary to verify and validate the agreed functionality and the implemented code before they are deployed in the blockchain platform. This article presents a systematic literature review of primary studies in the field of Software Development Life Cycle, focusing on model-based software design and testing in the blockchain domain of smart contracts. This research aims to identify gaps and/or opportunities for further research. After carried out this review, it was observed that no clear methodology exists for evaluating and validating the quality either of this software or the overall development process. This means that software developers may implement smart contract code in which bugs and serious security vulnerabilities appear when the software is delivered to their customers.