• DocumentCode
    2565285
  • Title

    Improvement in course curriculum for Software Project Management

  • Author

    Rauf, Abdul ; Albidewi, Ibrahim

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Syst. Dept., King Abdul Aziz Univ., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7-8 Dec. 2011
  • Firstpage
    125
  • Lastpage
    127
  • Abstract
    It is observed that most of the projects managed by Information System (IS) graduates after their joining in industry get failed and these projects incur heavy amounts. It is because, the students during study take only a single course which is based on theory and few labs on Microsoft Office Project which is inadequate to make them capable of handling real world projects. After conducting a survey from the students for the improvement of the curriculum and doing the analysis of this data and feedback from the industry, I have given few suggestions to perk up the related curriculum. The same suggestions may be implemented in IS department of all the universities of KSA to improve the situation and have better results for the growth of economy. These suggestions may also be incorporated in related curriculum of other universities to increase the success rate of planned projects.
  • Keywords
    computer science education; educational courses; information systems; software development management; KSA universities; Microsoft Office Project; course curriculum; information system graduates; real world projects; software project management; Chaos; Engineering education; Industries; Materials; Software; World Wide Web; Industry Requirement; Project Management; Updated Curriculum;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering Education (ICEED), 2011 3rd International Congress on
  • Conference_Location
    Kuala Lumpur
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1258-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEED.2011.6235373
  • Filename
    6235373