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Training Project Managers to Acquire GSD Soft Skills: A Serious Game

Authors:
Rubén Márquez
Aurora Vizcaíno
Félix Oscar García

Keywords: Global Software Development, Project Management, Soft Skills, Serious Game

Abstract:
A good project manager should develop a set of hard and soft skills if they wish to manage any kind of software project. However, when the team members are geographically distributed, several new skills should be taken into account. Aware of this fact, in this paper we describe the skills and competences that a manager of Global Software Development projects should master, and we sketch out a serious game that can be used to train some of these soft skills, which are grouped under the 3Cs (Communication, Coordination and Control). With this approach we place the focus on the project manager role and seek an immersive and engaging training experience.

Pages: 143 to 146

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: November 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-752-8

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 24, 2019 to November 28, 2019