Title :
Distributed Cross-Cultural Student Software Project: A Case Study
Author :
Inkeri Verkamo, A. ; Taina, J. ; Bogoyavlenskiy, Y. ; Korzun, D. ; Tuohiniemi, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Helsinki Univ.
Abstract :
Software is more and more developed in international cooperative efforts where project team members have different educational and cultural backgrounds and the team may even be distributed among sites in several countries. Software engineering education should also involve distributed and cross-cultural project work to prepare the future software developers for this kind of work environment. In a pilot project of two universities in Finland and in Russia a cross-cultural student team gathered experience by developing a common software product in a distributed project. While in general the project was successful, the team encountered some problems mainly due to the need to work in a foreign language and the practical limitations of remote connections
Keywords :
computer science education; groupware; project management; software engineering; software management; student experiments; Finland; Russia; cultural background; distributed cross-cultural student software project; educational background; foreign language; project team members; remote connections; software development; software engineering education; software product; work environment; Computer science; Computer science education; Cultural differences; Data communication; Educational products; Global communication; Mathematics; Programming; Software engineering; Team working;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Education & Training, 18th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2324-2
DOI :
10.1109/CSEET.2005.17