My experience is that agile software development is very important.

It is important in both academic and industry.

To support agile development, version control and issue tracking are crucial.

In short, team work is the core. To support collaborative team development, agile development is useful. So it is important to be familiar with version control and issue tracking. For tools, Git and bugzilla are good for education purpose also.

My experience is that agile software development is very important.

It is important in both academic and industry.

To support agile development, version control and issue tracking are crucial.

In short, team work is the core. To support collaborative team development, agile development is useful. So it is important to be familiar with version control and issue tracking. For tools, Git and bugzilla are good for education purpose also.

From my point of view, In Agile software development software reuse should also be added with versions controls and issue tracking.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot, Maya! Благодаря ти!

Your opinion is valuable to me. It's apparent that we cannot teach students everythig, as new IT and tools emerge  constantly. But we have to teach them to meet challenges, discover models and patterns, and how to work smartly :)

Thanks for sharing the books.

My bw from Varna and the Black sea :)

N.F.

Dear @Nadezhda, it is hard job! IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S. Of course, education must follow demands and to produce market ready graduates in ICT. 

"In light of "current market volatility and uncertainty which is unprecedented," Foote said that anyone who makes a 10-year IT employment projection "is kidding themselves."

The projections don't take into account the rate of technological change, he said.

Foote said the BLS only identifies a "small group" of IT jobs and doesn't track the new kinds of technology jobs that combine business and IT experience to create hybrid professions. Much of that is being driven by the demands to find useful ways to apply use so-called big data in a business..."

Regarding my country, you may find some good facts about the core of software development education, both vocational and academic. Link follows.

ICT in Serbia At a Glance 2015!

http://vojvodinaictcluster.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ICT-in-Serbia-At-a-Glance-2015.pdf

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2502348/it-management/it-jobs-will-grow-22--through-2020--says-u-s-.html

@Ljubomir, thank you very much for your valuable opinion and the links. 

I do agree that the pace of technological change in the IT sphere is ... incredible and unbearable. I cannot even enumerate all the stuff and tools I have come through - starting with some ancient languages such as PL/1 :); but all they are very special to me...

And it seems that more than a half of the world population, and even more, will be engaged in IT companies. Are the universities ready to meet this challenge?

My best regards,

N.F.

Dear Nadezhda,

We have a software development project at our school, which students have to finish before graduation, based on a topic of their choice. This project adopts SCRUM in around 6 sprints over 4 months period. There are many requirements in this project, however, we stress more on project organisation and schedules. So for each group project, we assign two faculty members, one as a product owner, and one as what we call Road/way leader. The product owner meets with students every day during sprint runs and discusses the technical issues related to the development challenges and recommendations. The Way leader meets with the students once every sprint, in order to make sure that there are no group conflicts or tensions. Also s/he is responsible in guiding the group on how to report and document on their project and methodology. Emphasise on the importance of reporting hours, tasks, task distribution, deviations from SCRUM and documenting reasons for that, meeting with customers, and customer stories. We also stress on the importance of version tracking on GitHub.

If you are interested, I can later discuss with you more on how we organise this. It took us some years with continues enhancements based on our experiences with previous student projects.

Dear Motaz,

Thank you so much for your comprehensive answer. I do agree that practical work with a SE methodology and collaborative work on group projects (with a repository) is very much needed. 

My bw from Varna and the Black sea :)

N.F.

Dear Oleg,

Thank you so much for drawing these issues to my attention!

Yes, ethics - this old-fashioned soft skill - is a sensitive issue in SE, as in any other business. IT pros with soft skills do matter nowadays, and are valuable to their companies. But it might be a challenge to plant soft skills in people: it needs time, patience and strategy.

The reachness to the richness of software and tools is also a vibrant issue. 

I do agree that the software systems must be easy to be learnt and easy to be used. They must be user-friendly and aesthetic.

Большое вам спасибо!

Cheers,

N.F.