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- From: davidal@comm.mot.com (UK702 DavidAlexander)
- Subject: Re: Why is the Software Process NOT working
- Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:42:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.104221.2983@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <1k1tasINNan0@andre.d.umn.edu>, kpierce@andre.d.umn.edu (Keith Pierce) writes:
- |> I believe that University courses CAN teach students
- |> industrial-strength processes, because I've been doing it.
- |>
- |> I teach the senior project-based software engineering course at my
- |> institution. A few years ago I began basing the project on maintaining
- |> a large software product. And I carried the project across terms,
- |> requiring each class to work with the product as it was left by the
- |> previous class.
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- I am quite willing to believe that lecturers that have current experience
- of commercial projects are able to teach good software engineering
- practice.
-
- What I doubt are that those who have spent their lives in further
- education or whose experience is number of years old. They might be
- able to teach theory to pass exams but I doubt they have a sufficiently
- robust approach to go further.
-
- TTFN
- David
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- The opinions expressed above are mine and not necessarily Motorola's (yet).
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