Managing Diversity in Distributed Software Development Education-A Longitudinal Case Study

Ivana Bosnić

doi:10.1145/3218310

Managing Diversity in Distributed Software Development Education-A Longitudinal Case Study

2019-01-07

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Teaching Distributed Software Development with real distributed settings is a challenging and rewarding task. Distributed courses are idiosyncratically more challenging than standard local courses. We have experienced this during our distributed course, which has been run for 14 consecutive years. In this article, we present and analyze the emerging diversities specific to distributed project-based courses. We base our arguments on our experience, and we exploit a three-layered distributed course model, which we use to analyze several course elements throughout the 14-years lifetime of our distributed project-based course. In particular, we focus on the changes that the course underwent throughout the years, combining findings obtained from the analyzed data with our own teaching perceptions. Additionally, we propose insights on how to manage the various diversity aspects.

Keywords:

Distributed software development

global software engineering

software engineering education

longitudinal case study

Managing Diversity in Distributed Software Development Education-A Longitudinal Case Study

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