Recent research has documented the interest of organizations in training their staff in soft
skills, but few studies have been found. Therefore, the objective of this research was to …

Higher education provides a solid theoretical and practical, but mostly technical, background
for the aspiring software developer. Research, however, has shown that graduates still fall …

Carrying out real-world software projects in their academic studies helps students to
understand what they will face in industry, and to experience first-hand the challenges …

Software engineering group projects aim to provide a nurturing environment for learning
about teamwork in software engineering. Since social and teamwork issues have been …

Besides technical knowledge and experience, the so-called" soft skills" of team members
are also an important factor in software engineering projects. The study of this subject is …

Education invariably aims at developing competencies, technical as well as non-technical
ones. As a consequence, there is also a need for methods that can be used to assess the …

If software engineering education is done in a traditional lecture-oriented style students have
no other choice than believing that the solutions they are told actually work for a problem …

This paper presents how collaborative industrial project are embedded into engineering
curriculum at two departments: School of Science and the School of Engineering, at RMIT …

Team-based software development projects (TBSDP) are a useful instrument to expose
students to teamwork in an industry-like working context. However, TBSDP exposes …

Objectives. Communication skills are crucial for effective software development teams, but
those skills are difficult to teach. The goal of our project is to evaluate the effectiveness of …