Objective
The main project objective is to develop an application based on multimedia and distance learning techniques to train software engineers and senior managers in the PSP model.
The identified target audience of this project are software engineers and senior managers working in small and medium enterprises or small software development teams. One common characteristic of this collective (and, in general, of all people working for SME) is their impossibility to attend regular pre-programmed courses due mainly to their lack of time for training and formative purposes caused by their diary activities. Therefore, one of their main identified requirements, addressed directly by this project, is to provide flexible (not constrained to fixed dates) and accessible (on-site and self teaching training) ways to increase their knowledge and skills to develop software using best practice. Nowadays there is a general understanding that an effective way to tackle this problem is to use of multimedia educational software combined with distance learning techniques.
ACTIONS
To develop the multimedia and distance learning (Internet) course.
To use this application in two pilot experiences with two European SME enterprises (6 end-users) in order to evaluate its level of effectiveness and acceptability. Additionally, four ESSI PIEs projects will also participate in the definition of the specifications and the evaluation of its level of effectiveness and acceptability.
Based on the results of the previous point to disseminate and extend the results of the project to the set of possible end-user companies making use of the special facilities and links provided in that area for the European Software Institute (ESI).
The metrics to measure the quality of the TRAPSP course and the user's satisfaction with this software package will be the evaluation questionnaire to be fulfilled by the software engineers trained with the pilot experiments, the commitment, at the end of the project, of an external company to distribute the product and the degree of attendance and interest suscited by the TRAPSP course during the software dissemination activities (seminar and workshop).
EXPECTED IMPACT
By means of the information materials, self training courseware and knowledgeware that this proposal intend to disseminate, a wide community of European software organisations and non-IT organisations, mainly SME, will become aware of establish and carry out their improvement processes by themselves. They will be allowed to obtaining suitable training on the PSP at economical prices without the need of travelling or attend standard courses. Additionally, the objectives and activities of this project are an important contribution to the LABEIN and ESI software best practices dissemination actions.
The consortium will prepare a first version of the "Project Exploitation Plan (PEP)" at the project mid-term and update it at the end of the project. This PEP will, among other subjects, identify, select and involve an external training provider engaged mainly in production and distribution to assure the use of the product for continuing training and education beyond the life if this project. If the results of the pilot experiences are positive the consortium will put the product into the market at a reasonable low-price strategy.
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- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
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