Students Managing the Software Development Process: A Meta-Level Retrospective Evaluation.

A fifteen week module on software engineering management exposed graduate students to practical aspects of the management of software development: emphasizing the recording and analysis of factual data during a group project. Data generated within the six projects are analyzed to reveal the extent to which the students demonstrated the required management and monitoring competencies. These results showed the student groups on a spectrum from full competence to no evidence of competence. The most interesting results were for the three groups in the "partially competent" range: and it is these that are discussed in most detail. The group work was retrospectively evaluated against SWEBOK knowledge areas to analyze the extent to which they were covered. Finally the issues that need to be considered in an explicit use of SWEBOK, and the need for support from automated data collection and analysis are discussed