Assessment of continuing educational measures in software engineering: a view from the industry

• Autores: Olaf Radant, Ricardo Colomo Palacios, Vladimir Stantchev
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 32, no. Extra 2 (Parte B ), 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Trends in Software Engineering for Engineering Education), págs. 905-915
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a field like Software Engineering, highly dependent on knowledge, continuing education is key to warrantee businesssustainability. In this scenario, relying on continuing educational measures is crucial to support organizations in theircompetence management programs. In order to validate a set of measures, in this paper an interview study regardingcontinuing education measures is reported. The study was carried out in late 2014, early 2015 with some of the mostexperienced SE professionals from the consulting company BearingPoint. Study findings suggest an increasingrelevance of such educational measures. Furthermore, authors provide insights about relevant educational measures,improvement areas in employees’ training, commonly experienced problems, as well as instruments for control andevaluation.