An Introduction to the Management of Complex Software Projects
Abstract
A couple of years ago, a former student donated a significant amount of money to the faculty of our alma mater. The amount would today be equivalent to a total of one million dollars. This happened on the donor’s 80th birthday, when he looked back on his life, and decided to give some money to Stanford and Belgrade Universities.
After that event, the dean of the School of Electrical Engineering (at that time), who later became the rector of the entire university, together with a few other people, including one of the co-authors of this book, met to discuss what could be done on the part of the faculty to increase the probability of an event like this one happening again. The conclusion of the discussion was to form a course that would teach the students, above everything else, the skills that are crucially important in the period after graduation.
The course was first offered to students with a major in Software Engineering and Computer Engineering at the School of Electrical Engin...eering of the University of Belgrade and the School of Mathematics of the University of Belgrade. When the entire university heard about this course, several other schools of the same university decided to make it elective or even mandatory in their postgraduate studies; in some cases, it was even the only mandatory course of master studies. The schools that adopted the course include the School of Civil Engineering and the School of Physical Chemistry, while the same course in a reduced format was adopted by the School of Business Administration, and the School of Urban Architecture. Some of them decided that the class should include twelve hours a week dedicated to homework, with all homework assignments being mandatory. In other schools, only four homework assignments were mandatory, so the selected topics were covered both by homework and at the exam, while the remaining topics were covered only at the exam.
After the chapter that presents the teaching content for each week of the course, the authors have added chapters dedicated to special topics of importance for the success of new graduates, with special emphasis on computing.
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024Publisher:
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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GraFarMilutinović, V., Đorđević, F., Kotlar, M.,& Salom, J.. (2024). An Introduction to the Management of Complex Software Projects. in Cambridge Scholars Publishing Cambridge Scholars Publishing.. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_grafar_3575
Milutinović V, Đorđević F, Kotlar M, Salom J. An Introduction to the Management of Complex Software Projects. in Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2024;. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_grafar_3575 .
Milutinović, Veljko, Đorđević, Filip, Kotlar, Miloš, Salom, Jakob, "An Introduction to the Management of Complex Software Projects" in Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2024), https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_grafar_3575 .