A Stakeholder Win-Win Approach to Software Engineering Education

Authors: Barry Boehm, Alexander Egyed, Dan Port, Archita Shah, Julie Kwan, and Ray Madachy

We are applying the stakeholder win-win approach to software engineering education. The key stakeholders we are trying to simultaneously satisfy are the students; the industry recipients of our graduates; the software engineering community as parties interested in improved practices; and ourselves as instructors and teaching assistants.

In order to satisfy the objectives or win conditions of these stakeholders, we formed a strategic alliance with the University of Southern California Libraries to have software engineering student teams work with Library clients to define, develop, and transition USC digital library applications into operational use. This adds another set of key stakeholders: the Library clients of our class projects.

This paper summarizes our experience in developing, conducting, and iterating the course. It concludes by evaluating the degree to which we have been able to meet the stakeholder-determined course objectives.

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