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In the final part of this series of posts on Training Software Engineers, having spent time talking about academic curricula and the subjects taught, I want to think about the methods used in educating software engineers and computer scientists. It’s a fairly simple premise: we need to be trained less on tasks which we carry [...]

While recently pulling together over 130 hours of video-based training material for software engineers and project managers I was reminded of how regularly a number of key aspects kept cropping up, even as we looked at very different software engineering practices and ideas, like SSADM, UML, BPMN, test driven development, risk management and so on.  [...]

In this second post on how we go about training software engineers, I’ll be considering the point raised by a non-geek friend of mine once. “You computer guys seem to get so protective of the tools you use!” he exclaimed before going on to claim that the French car he drove was so much better [...]