Educating Software Engineering Managers - Revisited What Software Project Managers Need to Know Today

In 2003, the original paper with this title was published as part of CSEET 2003. It focused on resolving communication issues between software project managers and developers and introduced a corporate strategy based means of evaluating software engineers. Now, more than a decade later, we could benefit from what we have learned in other fields about managing people involved in knowledge work and how to improve our success in software development. But are we? This paper is intended to present what Software Engineering students can be taught today that will help them to be successful as software project managers now and in the future. It is based on the premise that effective software project managers are not born but made through education.