Nature and Importance of Soft Skills in Software Project Leaders

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narendra M. Agrawal ◽  
Mohan Thite
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Software Project

scholarly journals Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management

10.28945/860 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 691-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneerav Sukhoo ◽  
Andries Barnard ◽  
Mariki M. Eloff ◽  
John A. Van Der Poll ◽  
Mahendrenath Motah
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management

scholarly journals Study of the Influence of Multiple Intelligences and the use of Soft Skills in Project Write-up among IT and Non-IT Students: A Research Paper

10.28945/3096 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahendrenath Motah
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
Information Technology Education ◽  
Northern Arizona University ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The present work is a follow-up of the papers presented at the Northern Arizona University, USA - “Accommodating soft skills in Software project Management” and the one presented at Salford University, Manchester, UK - “ The ontogeny of memory of learning: Natural Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence in Information Technology Education”. Several interrogations cropped up during and after the presentation of the second paper, particularly on the conclusions, if any, that could have been drawn on the effects of soft skills, intelligence and intelligences; and if the next step would be to further investigate the impact of these on Information Technology Education. The impression that there was an urgent need to delve deeper into these factors and to find out their importance from the point of view of information technology education and other non IT fields lingered on for an appreciable length of time. In order to reply to the various unavoidable questions that arose from an analysis of the hypothetical aspects introduced in the above mentioned papers, we have tried to look into the influence of the factors related to the concepts of soft skills and intelligence in educational endeavours. In order to have an in-depth appreciation of the importance of these factors, we have solicited the involvement of both IT and Non-IT students reading in the fields of Administration and Management and Information Technology. Finding out the importance and the influence of soft skills and intelligence or intelligences became an obsession which resulted in an interesting and passionate exercise with the involvement of nearly two hundred students. We believe that, sharing the results of our findings with other colleagues would arouse further interests and trigger other more interesting research in the field.

scholarly journals Soft Skills for Software Project Team Members

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel S. Mtsweni ◽  
◽  
Tertia Hörne ◽  
John Andrew van der Poll
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Team Members

scholarly journals Accommodating Soft Skills in Software Project Management

10.28945/2923 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneerav Sukhoo ◽  
Andries Barnard ◽  
Mariki M. Eloff ◽  
John A. Van der Poll ◽  
Mahendrenath Motah
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Cost Overrun ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Management Domain ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
The University

Software project management probably is a sector that has witnessed the highest rate of project failure in the world. This is not the case with project management concerned with other disciplines due to better management of their inherent strengths and weaknesses. Hard skills, often described as a science and comprising processes, tools and techniques applied to projects are the main focus of many project management methodologies. Extensive research has been carried out in the project management domain with greater focus on hard skills. Soft skills described as an art, are very often ignored during software project management. Such skills, acquired through experience, are concerned with managing and working with people, ensuring customer satisfaction and creating a conducive environment for the project team to deliver high quality products within budget and on time and exceeding stakeholder expectations. This paper summarizes the soft skills that can possibly improve the success rate of software projects. These projects, if not managed properly can lead to escalation of budget and time schedules beyond expectations. Deterioration of quality may be inevitable while deploying efforts to deal with cost overrun and schedule extension. Research in the field of soft skills required has been carried out at the University of Arkansas. The results show that IT organizations are conscious of the need for soft skills. Furthermore, a number of organizations, like Polaris, Sun Microsystems and Mastek have found it necessary to include soft skills in their training agenda.

scholarly journals Analysis Software Engineering Team's Soft Skills Learning using Online Learning Platform with Project-Oriented Problem-Based Learning (POPBL)

Jurnal INFORM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Siti Dwi Setiarini ◽  
Sri Ratna Wulan
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Wilcoxon Test ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Skills Learning

In a decade, the 4.0 industry requires improving their employees, especially for freshly graduated employees. Both hard skills and soft skills must be improved. The Computers and Informatics Engineering Department at Bandung State Polytechnic has a software project subject in their curriculum that adapted the Project-Oriented Problem Based Learning (POPBL) method to improve them. It can give the skills experience that the industry needed, especially soft skills for students who act as the software engineering team in this subject. But, after the spread of covid-19, soft skills learning with POPBL must use the online learning platform. The POPBL must be designed with the online learning framework. Based on industrial needs, each student's soft skills are problem-solving, teamwork, responsibility, communication, hard work, and discipline. These two purposes of the research are making the POPBL using the online learning platform and knowing how to use the online learning platform in the POPBL method. The findings in this POPBL research are something happen in POPBL online learning, such as all step in POPBL framework keep running, poor connection and communication device to be a problem that hinders the POPBL process, need more time for lecturer to observe the students directly, and need more time to give the action from the weekly evaluation results. In addition, the impacts of POPBL online learning on soft skills results are founded. Means of the students' soft skills grades and Wilcoxon test are used to get the results of this research. The result of data analysis is four soft skills significantly change. Two of the soft skills significantly increased are responsibility and hard work. Problem solving and communication are decreased considerably. The conclusion is the spread of covid-19 given the impacts on students' soft skills in software project class at Bandung State Polytechnic using the POPBL online learning method.

scholarly journals Soft skills of delivery managers in a co-sourced software project

2021 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 905-912
Author(s):  
Bjarne Rerup Schlichter ◽  
Tetiana Buchynska
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Software Project
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