Picking the right project: Assigning student teams in a GSD course

Author

Bosnic, Ivana ; Cavrak, Igor ; Orlic, Marin ; Zagar, Martin

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

fYear

2013

fDate

19-21 May 2013

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

158

Abstract

This paper describes the process of assigning students to project teams in a global software development course. Project proposals vary in several characteristics in order to provide students from two universities, who have highly heterogeneous knowledge, a wide range of choices. Students submit an initial questionnaire about their skills, together with ranked project preferences. Based on 24 projects and 155 students in last three years of the course, project types and criteria such as students´ knowledge of programming languages or development platforms are analyzed and presented.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; educational institutions; programming languages; project management; software engineering; team working; GSD course; development platforms; global software development course; heterogeneous knowledge; programming languages; project proposals; project teams; project types; ranked project preferences; student knowledge; student skills; student teams; universities; Collaboration; Companies; Computer languages; Educational institutions; Proposals; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2013 IEEE 26th Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1093-0175

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595246

Filename

6595246