An Academic Perspective on Globalization in the Software Industry

Author

Bellur, Umesh

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol., IIT Bombay, Mumbai

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

54

Abstract

In this paper, the author has presented the challenges in global software development and then identified the gaps in the academic curriculum that should be addressed in order to train software engineers to be cognizant of current issues in executing large, global software projects. We have also outlined a practically oriented academic course that will stress on the skills needed to actually execute global projects. Over multiple offerings of such a course we hope to abstract out the actual issues faced and present suitable solutions as learnings

Keywords

DP industry; computer science education; educational courses; globalisation; software engineering; software management; academic curriculum; academic perspective; global software development; global software projects; software engineers training; software industry; Computer industry; Computer science; Cultural differences; Globalization; Information technology; Knowledge management; Programming; Quality management; Software development management; Software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2006. COMPSAC '06. 30th Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2655-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPSAC.2006.20

Filename

4020058