Virtual teams and employability in global software engineering education

Bass, JM; McDermott, R; Lalchandani, JT

Abstract

Universities face many challenges when creating opportunities for student experiences of global software engineering. We provide a model for introducing global software engineering into the computing curriculum. Our model is based on a three year collaboration between Robert Gordon University, UK and the International Institute for IT Bangalore, India. We provide evidence based on student feedback from three cohorts of virtual team who never met face to face. We found potential employers were supportive of global software engineering in university curricula. We identify four key principles for global software engineering student projects: reconcile contrasting assessment demands between institutions, create a detailed joint timetable to reconcile teaching calendars, provide a project management framework to support phased delivery and carefully manage project scope.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), 2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on
• Start Date: Jul 14, 2015
• End Date: Jul 16, 2015
• Publication Date: Jul 16, 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 28, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 21, 2018
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ISBN: 9781479984091
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICGSE.2015.21