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Why software engineering programs should teach agile software development

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Orit Hazzan,

Yael DubinskyAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 32, Issue 2

Pages 1 - 3

https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234758

Published: 01 March 2007 Publication History

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In this paper we propose ten reasons why it is important, suitable and timely to introduce agile software development into software engineering programs in the academia. These reasons address technical, social and cognitive issues.

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Why software engineering programs should teach agile software development
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 32, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/1234741

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