A Taxonomy of Organizational Alternatives for Project-Oriented Software Engineering Courses

Industrial software development today requires a fundamental software engineering education as well as the ability to work productively and collaboratively in a team environment. In order to produce graduates possessing the skills necessary to succeed in the workplace, team-oriented software engineering courses with real projects (and with real clients) are increasingly emphasized. There are a large number of organizational issues and alternatives that one must be aware of in order to successfully ooer a project course that both covers the software engineering concepts as well as opportunities to apply them. The objective of this article is to discuss these alternatives and issues and provide suggestions for alleviating or avoiding potential problems.