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Software Business Education for Software Engineers: Towards an Integrated Curriculum

M. AhokasJ. KontioMarkus M. MäkeläPasi TyrväinenJuhani WarstaP. Poyry

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Software Engineering Process GroupSocial software engineeringEngineering managementbusiness.industryComputer sciencePersonal software processBusiness softwareSoftware constructionSoftware developmentSoftware businessSoftware engineeringbusinessSoftware peer review

description

All software is developed to create value to its stakeholders. Software engineering decisions and business value are closely linked with each other: technical decisions may have a profound impact on the business potential of software. Yet, software engineering education usually does not provide students with sufficient knowledge on business-related issues. We believe that the general business education is too abstract and unfocused to address the specific characteristics of software business. This paper suggests specific areas of business competencies that should be integrated into the software engineering curriculum. In addition, we compare these topics with software business curricula in three Finnish universities.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-07-1019th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training Workshops (CSEETW'06)
https://doi.org/10.1109/cseetw.2006.15