The softer side of custom software development: working with the other players

Author

Poole, William G.

Author_Institution

Seattle Univ., WA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 March 2003

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

21

Abstract

Many university programs in software engineering educate students about various technical topics, programming, methodology, software, applications as well as other topics that are considered ´hard´ subjects. However, in the practical industrial world of developing custom software applications, there are various other matters confronting the software engineer that involve the other stakeholders in the development setting. These other stakeholders might be from the ´softer´ subjects: sales, marketing, graphical arts, management, etc. This article presents an overview of the other stakeholders and suggests, to the software engineer, how to interact with them effectively.

Keywords

computer science education; marketing; software engineering; custom software development; graphical arts; management; marketing; methodology; programming; sales; software engineering; university programs; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Art; Computer industry; Engineering management; Marketing and sales; Marketing management; Programming profession; Project management; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training, 2003. (CSEE&T 2003). Proceedings. 16th Conference on

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1869-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEE.2003.1191341

Filename

1191341