Customers' Role in Teaching Distributed Software Development

Bosnić, Ivana; Čavrak, Igor; agar, Mario; Land, Rikard; Crnković, Ivica

doi:10.1109/cseet.2010.27

Cited by 26 publications

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“…A similar teaching experience is presented by Bosnic et al [1] involving distributed software engineering in collaboration with Croatia and Sweden. The course has been taught for several years facing challenges such as motivation of students, and organizational issues.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…This contest is carried out in the context of a DOSE course, teaching GSD. There exist several courses similar to DOSE, teaching globally distributed software development (GSD), whose results have been reported previously [11,12,10,1]. These include the works reported in two editions of the CTGDSD workshop [4].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In recent years, some SE courses have incorporated globally distributed projects [17,1,15]. In these cases, projects are developed by teams located in different countries, illustrating the challenges of distributed software development.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An experiment on teaching coordination in a globally distributed software engineering class

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Estler

Meyer

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 27th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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The importance of planning and management skills in software development is very difficult to convey in software engineering courses. We present the synopsis of an assignment whose purpose is to demonstrate the significance of such skills, including effective communication, team coordination and collaboration, and overall project planning. The assignment is organized in the context of a distributed software engineering course carried out in collaboration with 12 universities in South America, Europe and Africa. The assignment is a globally distributed contest issued before most development activities related to the course's software project are performed, aiming at favoring the collaboration between students prior to project development. The contest does not involve any programming, and is not related to the project development activities. Instead, it consists of making teams in different countries compete in collaboratively solving a set of very simple tasks. The complexity of the activity is in team collaboration and coordination, and their lack is evident when the tasks are not correctly solved, or not solved in time. Despite the simplicity of the assignment, students have found it useful in helping them understand the significance of management and planning challenges in distributed software development. Moreover, the assignment helped in team building, by creating a better team atmosphere and contributing in identifying team members better suited for management.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An experiment on teaching coordination in a globally distributed software engineering class

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Estler

Meyer

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 27th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

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“…A variation on this approach has co-located student teams engaging with a remote customer [2,6]. This approach has the advantage of not requiring coordination across multiple institutions while still giving students experience with communication barriers introduced by global distance.…”

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confidence: 99%

Teaching Global Software Development through Game Design

Noll

Butterfield

2016

2016 IEEE 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW)

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Abstract-In order to be prepared for careers in todays global economy, software engineering students need to understand the issues, methods, and practices associated with Global Software Development (GSD). One approach to teaching GSD is to conduct a GSD project class involving student teams from different institutions in different countries. This approach has the advantage of giving students first-hand experience with the barriers to collaboration and other issues faced by software development teams engaged in GSD. However, this approach is resourceintensive and requires cooperation among institutions.This paper presents an alternate approach based on game design, where students learn GSD concepts by developing a GSD simulation game. Following this approach, students learn about GSD through implementing a game engine that simulates the effects of global distance on a distributed software project. The experience shows that students seem to grasp the concepts and issues as a side effect of implementing the game.

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“…Customers on geographically distributed student software projects can be students, lecturers or external clients [30]. Students taking the customer role can face cutural challenges when prioritising and negotiating requirements with student teams [31].…”

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confidence: 99%