Preparing Students for Industry s Software Engineering Needs Watts Humphrey SEI Fellow Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Robert Musson Principal Engineer Microsoft Corporation 1Microsoft Way Redmond WA 98052 Rafael Salazar Director, Mexican TSP Initiative Computer Science Department Tecnol gico de Monterrey Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico watts@sei.cmu.edu robert.musson@microsoft.com rafael.salazar@itesm.mx SUMMARY This special session describes disciplined software development methods, how they work, why they are important to industry, and a strategy for introducing them. It will have three speakers. The first will describe knowledge work and how software engineering knowledge workers can produce quality products predictably when they consistently follow disciplined methods. The second speaker will describe the importance of early education in disciplined methods to his company s effort to improve software security and quality. The third speaker will describe how his university is working with the government and other universities to provide early education in disciplined methods. disciplined methods. In Part 2, Robert Musson of the Microsoft Corporation describes his company s experiences with these methods. Part 3 is devoted to academic experiences and plans. Rafael Salazar from Tecnol gico de Monterrey outlines his university s strategy for introducing these methods both into the academic
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