NDLI: An experiment on teaching coordination in a globally distributed software engineering class

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Nordio, M. Estler, H.C. Meyer, B. Aguirre, N. Prikladnicki, R. Di Nitto, E. Savidis, A.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy (Di Nitto, E.) \|\| Dept. of Comput. Sci., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (Nordio, M.; Estler, H.C.; Meyer, B.) \|\| Univ. of Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto, Argentina (Aguirre, N.) \|\| PUCRS, Brazil (Prikladnicki, R.) \|\| Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Greece (Savidis, A.)
Abstract	The importance of planning and management skills in software development is very difficult to convey in software engineering courses. We present the synopsis of an assignment whose purpose is to demonstrate the significance of such skills, including effective communication, team coordination and collaboration, and overall project planning. The assignment is organized in the context of a distributed software engineering course carried out in collaboration with 12 universities in South America, Europe and Africa. The assignment is a globally distributed contest issued before most development activities related to the course's software project are performed, aiming at favoring the collaboration between students prior to project development. The contest does not involve any programming, and is not related to the project development activities. Instead, it consists of making teams in different countries compete in collaboratively solving a set of very simple tasks. The complexity of the activity is in team collaboration and coordination, and their lack is evident when the tasks are not correctly solved, or not solved in time. Despite the simplicity of the as-signment, students have found it useful in helping them understand the significance of management and planning challenges in distributed software development. Moreover, the assignment helped in team building, by creating a better team atmosphere and contributing in identifying team members better suited for management.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc.
Starting Page	109
Ending Page	118
File Size	1542782
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479949700
DOI	10.1109/CSEET.2014.6816788
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-04-23
Publisher Place	Austria
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Educational institutions Software Arrays Collaboration Electronic mail Games Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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