Exporting Studio: Critical Issues to Successfully Adopt the Software Studio Concept

Author

Root, David ; Rosso-Llopart, Mel ; Taran, Gil

Author_Institution

Master of Software Eng. Programs, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 April 2008

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

48

Abstract

In 1989 the professional masters of software engineering (MSE) program at Carnegie Mellon initiated a new approach to graduate level software projects: the software development studio. In 2002 the studio concept was first exported under a cooperative program to teach software engineering at an international partner university. However, CMU quickly determined that student projects, at this partner, lacked progress compared to their CMU counterparts. This paper will focus on the critical lessons that were learned from this ldquoexportrdquo that not only has helped this partnership but also others that are just starting.

Keywords

computer science education; software engineering; software development studio; software engineering program; software project; software studio concept; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational programs; Gas insulated transmission lines; History; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Software engineering; Software systems; adopt software studio concept; cooperative program; software engineering projects;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Education and Training, 2008. CSEET '08. IEEE 21st Conference on

Conference_Location

Charleston, SC

ISSN

1093-0175

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3144-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSEET.2008.21

Filename

4556948