Soft Skills REquired: A Practical Approach for Empowering Soft Skills in the Engineering World

Author

Penzenstadler, Birgit ; Haller, Gabriele ; Schlosser, Tobias ; Frenzel, Gabriele

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

31-31 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

36

Abstract

Unfortunately, most requirements engineers and their project managers are not (or not enough) aware of the need for soft skills in addition to latest technology and state of the art methods. This paper presents first a definition and categorization of soft skills, then characteristic soft skill fingerprints elaborated for requirements engineering practices, illustrated by a number of examples, and finally guidance for applying that knowledge in project and human resource management.

Keywords

formal specification; human resource management; project management; engineering world; human resource management; project managers; requirements engineering; requirements engineers; soft skills; Concrete; Design methodology; Engineering management; Fingerprint recognition; Guidelines; Human resource management; Knowledge engineering; Project management; Software engineering; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Requirements: Communication, Understanding and Softskills, 2009 Collaboration and Intercultural Issues on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7692-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIRCUS.2009.5

Filename

5457332