The hard work of soft skills: augmenting the project-based learning experience with interdisciplinary teamwork

JS Vogler, P Thompson, DW Davis, BE Mayfield… - Instructional …, 2018 - Springer
This two-year qualitative study explored the learning process alongside students' perceived
outcomes within an interdisciplinary project-based learning (PjBL) task. Students from three …

Impact of individualism and collectivism cultural profiles on the behaviour of software developers: A study of stack overflow

E Zolduoarrati, SA Licorish, N Stanger - Journal of Systems and Software, 2022 - Elsevier
Literature is scarce on culture and its impact on the behavioural patterns within software
development communities. However, globalisation in software development has intensified …

Cooperation and communication challenges in small-scale eHealth development projects

LS Petersen, P Bertelsen, C Bjørnes - International journal of medical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Aim In eHealth development there is an increasing focus on user participation inspired by
the information systems field of practice and research. There are, however, many other …

Achieving effective communication during requirements elicitation-A conceptual framework

F Anwar, R Razali, K Ahmad - … 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27 …, 2011 - Springer
Requirements elicitation is one of the most important and critical phase in software
development. It is the moment in which the users' needs of a software system are captured …

Childhood Interest in IT and the Choice of IT as a Career: The Experiences of a Group of IT Professionals

LEC Potter, LA von Hellens, SH Nielsen - … of the special interest group on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we discuss the motivating factors behind Information Technology (IT)
professionals and what drives their choice of IT as a career. In order to explore this a series …

Patterns of software development process

SJ Bolaños Castro, R González-Crespo… - 2011 - reunir.unir.net
This article presents a set of patterns that can be found to perform best practices in software
processes that are directly related to the problem of implementing the activities of the …

Communication skills in the CS curriculum

E Giangrande Jr - Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Over the years it has been pointed out that an important skill for computer science majors is
the ability to communicate effectively [1, 3, 9]. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons …

Preparing for projects: It student self-evaluation of technical and professional skills

LE Potter - Proceedings of the 2020 on Computers and People …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
As Information Technology academics we seek to prepare our students for their future
endeavours, and these are generally focused on an IT professional career. To commence …

Predicting individual performance in student project teams

M Hale, N Jorgenson, R Gamble - 2011 24th IEEE-CS …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the critical role of communication in project teams, capturing and analyzing
developer design notes and conversations for use as performance predictors is becoming …

SEREBRO: facilitating student project team collaboration

NM Jorgenson, ML Hale, RF Gamble - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
In this demonstration, we show SEREBRO, a lightweight courseware developed for student
team collaboration in a software engineering class. SEREBRO couples an idea forum with …