Title :
Improving teamwork in students software projects
Author :
Marques, Marco ; Ochoa, Sergio F.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Abstract :
The software industry and the academia have recognized the importance of teamwork as a driver to succeed in software projects. Therefore, the industry expects that new engineers are able to work in teams. Unfortunately, teamwork is a skill that cannot be transferred in a simple way, and there is not a clear recipe for doing that. This paper proposes the use of particular ThinkLets (a process pattern to address collaboration recurrent problems) to help overcome particular problems that jeopardize teamwork. This proposal has been evaluated through software developments in the academia involving computer science undergraduate students.
Keywords :
computer science education; further education; project management; software development management; student experiments; team working; ThinkLets; collaboration recurrent problem; computer science undergraduate students; process pattern; software development; software industry; student software projects; teamwork; Computer science; Industries; Monitoring; Software; Software engineering; Teamwork;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2014 IEEE 27th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Klagenfurt
DOI :
10.1109/CSEET.2014.6816787