Workshop: Professional Development of Software Engineers

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WorkshopProfessional Development of Software
Engineers

• Hazzan Orit
• Department of Education in Technology and Scinece
• Technion Israel Institute of Technology
• Homepage http//edu.technion.ac.il/Faculty/Orit
  H/HomePage

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What can be done? Workshop plan

• Personal stories
• Tell your story (past and future)
• Role models
• Tell the story of a role model
• Case studies
• Construct a case study that illustrates one
  aspect of the topic
• Development environments
• Analyze a team meeting
• Describe a preferred development environment
• Personal development plans

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Role modelsFamous and accepted

• Ada Lovelace http//www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/love
  lace.html
• Grace Murray Hopper
• http//www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html
• Anita Borg
• http//www.iwt.org/news/anitaborg/inmemory.htm
• http//www.iwt.org/borg.html

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Role models (alphabetically)

• Francine D. Berman http//www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/be
  rman/
• Lenore Blum http//www-2.cs.cmu.edu/lblum/lblum.h
  tml
• Boots Cassel http//duplex.mcs.drexel.edu/events/c
  assel/
• Lynn Conway http//ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway
  /conway.html
• Thelma Estrin http//www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/fa
  culty_pages/testrin.html
• Maria Klawe http//www.princeton.edu/seasweb/dean
  /Klawe/Klawe.html
• Nancy Leveson http//sunnyday.mit.edu/
• Mary Shaw http//spoke.compose.cs.cmu.edu/shaweb/

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Role models

• Additional resources
• http//www.stanford.edu/group/wics/lectures.shtml
  speakers
• http//women.cs.cmu.edu/

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Role models

• Towards the next meeting
• Select a woman role model (from the given list
  or from the software industry).
• Find information about this role model and tell
  her story.

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Case studies

• Construct a case study about women in the
  software engineering world.

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Case studies construction

• Step 1. Select a topic Think about a topic that
  you find it interesting and relevant for you to
  discuss.
• Step 2. Analyze the nature of the topic Check
  whether the topic you want to focus on has enough
  heft to be at the center of a case study.

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Case studies construction (cont)

• Step 3. Imagine possible situations Imagine at
  least two situations in software engineering in
  which the topic may be relevant.
• Step 4. Write the case study Write down the
  selected case study. Try to make it vivid as much
  as possible without forgetting to include in it
  the main issues you wanted to address.

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Case studies construction (cont)

• Step 5. Check the scope of the case study Check
  issues such as
• Is the main message you wanted to convey by this
  case study reflected properly?
• Are the connections between the different topics
  addressed in the case study clear?
• Can other related topics be added to the case
  study without altering the focus of the case
  study?
• Step 6. Develop questions about the case study
  Develop stimulating questions.

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Case studies construction outline

• Step 1. Select a topic
• Step 2. Analyze the nature of the topic
• Step 3. Imagine possible situations
• Step 4. Write the case study
• Step 5. Check the scope of the case study
• Step 6. Develop questions

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Role ModelsStudents presentations

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Networking in the software industry

Develop a website that will facilitate ongoing
networking in the filed of software engineering.
Outline your targets and present a detailed
process by which you plan to achieve them.
Optional Develop the website, follow through
with the said process. Did you follow your plan?
What was done differently than your original
plan?
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Towards the next meeting

• Observe one of your team meetings in the Cave. If
  you do not have a meeting during the workshop,
  based the following analysis on your memory.
  Identify the main characteristics of the meeting
  atmosphere, leadership, topics discussed, etc.
  Analyze your description
• Do you like the environment you have described?
• If yes, what do you find attractive in that
  development environment?
• If not, which of its elements would you change?

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Towards the next meeting (cont)

• Based on the above analysis and other
  impressions
• Describe characteristics of a software
  development environment in which you would like
  to participate.
• Explain each of the components you mention.
• How will you establish such an environment when
  you become a software project leader?