TY - GEN
T1 - Software engineering course projects
T2 - 6th SEI Conference on Software Engineering Education, 1992
AU - Kantipudi, Manmahesh
AU - Collier, Ken W.
AU - Collofello, James
AU - Medeiros, Scott
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1992, Springer Verlag. All rights reserved.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - In the past there has been much written about successful commercial software development projects while failures are largely ignored. Similarly, the software engineering education literature contains many references to successful course projects, while academic course project failures are rarely described. This paper provides an analysis of software engineering course project failures as well as practical recommendations for increasing the chances of successful projects. The failures are grouped into technical, personal and management categories. Our recommendations are based upon a synthesis of current approaches being adopted to various degrees in industry as well as our own personal experiences. Most of our non-technical recommendations have historically received very little attention in course offerings or even current popular software engineering texts. It is our goal in this paper to sensitize software engineering course instructors to the possible failures their project teams face as well as provide them with insight into increasing their teams chances for success.
AB - In the past there has been much written about successful commercial software development projects while failures are largely ignored. Similarly, the software engineering education literature contains many references to successful course projects, while academic course project failures are rarely described. This paper provides an analysis of software engineering course project failures as well as practical recommendations for increasing the chances of successful projects. The failures are grouped into technical, personal and management categories. Our recommendations are based upon a synthesis of current approaches being adopted to various degrees in industry as well as our own personal experiences. Most of our non-technical recommendations have historically received very little attention in course offerings or even current popular software engineering texts. It is our goal in this paper to sensitize software engineering course instructors to the possible failures their project teams face as well as provide them with insight into increasing their teams chances for success.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-55963-9_60
DO - 10.1007/3-540-55963-9_60
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85026827482
SN - 9783540559634
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 324
EP - 338
BT - Software Engineering Education - SEI Conference 1992, Proceedings
A2 - Sledge, Carol
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 5 October 1992 through 7 October 1992
ER -