Conference Session

Software Engineering Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stefan Christov, Quinnipiac University; Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

• Interaction with teams provided managers the opportunity to experience “soft-skill” aspects of software project management that they would not have experienced without this interaction5.2 Issues and Lessons LearnedManager’s authority. The most notable issue observed by the instructors and also reported bystudents in both courses was that the managers (students in the SPM course) had insufficientauthority over their teams. As discussed in section 3.2, the students in the SPM course wereencouraged to provide advice to their teams, but they were explicitly instructed that decisionsabout the directions of the team projects should be made by the students in the ISD course. This 1 The value of the information about the collaboration