VIRTUAL: A new curriculum for Software Development

This will be a virtual, SKYPE meeting only.

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• Software Development lacks the coherence found in other engineering disciplines.

• Proposed remedies have not fixed and are not fixing the problems in building the world's needed software.

• Software Engineering luminaries have researched and proposed new curricula, but without industry consolidation and adoption.

Some discussion topics available today:

1. How do we measure successful engineering? Return On Investment is one way, but there are other measurements.

2. What skills are needed by a software engineer? What skills should be taught formally in a classroom, and what skills are to be developed in an internship or on the job?

3. What leads to failure in software engineering, and what items in a curriculum could prepare a graduate to avoid typical failures?

Check out our new wiki! https://softwarefactory.us/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:2020-03-16-mon

New schedule of alternate Monday meetings!

Schedule: 6 to ~7:30pm

6:00pm Discussion and Skype call start!

Stay tuned for future possible discussions:

• Dreyfus scale in expertise
• Deliberate practice strategies from book 52 Tips
• How to construct 5-hour learning projects
• Open discussion sessions with any topics attendees want to study
• As a group get ideas and then plan out some study projects
• Plenty of articles to read and discuss
• And applying deliberate practice to collaborative groups

• Clyde