Teaching “Software Project Management” course - Seven years experience

A course on “Software Project Management” created as a part of DAAD project was conducted for the seventh time at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics in Novi Sad during the school-year 2010/11. At the beginning, it has been a part of the “Business Informatics” curriculum, as an elective course for the students of the final semester of studies. After realizing its importance, the course was moved, and became an obligatory subject of the first year of master studies of “Software Engineering” direction. It has been realized completely in accordance with Bologna declaration and continual assessment. Course includes practical work on a real world project, and class hours devoted to discussions and role-playing games considering the situations of programmer´s real life. Using funds of another project, Austrian WUS association program, respectable literature on a subject was purchased, and an appropriate textbook was written. In this paper, we will present our long-lasting experiences with the development and teaching of this course, and also results of a survey covering students´ opinions about the course.