How to teach software development

posted by  hjwin (10)  10 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Software development is teamwork. The most important techniques you learn for project success -- or get wrong otherwise -- are about working in teams. The methods that have made the biggest improvements in development success rates are not tools or technical stuff, they're about how people work together -- most notably, the agile methods. Tools are useful to support good ways of working, once you've sorted out what they are.

So it's unfortunate that most computing degrees, in most parts of the world, don't teach these teamwork aspects. If you're lucky, you get some stuff about agilit