Paper Info
Title
The Imagine Cup Software Development Invitational: Implications for Use in the IS Capstone Course
Abstract
ABSTRACT Employers have been critical of the opportunities students have to integrate technical business and soft skills in IS programs. The IS capstone course is one mechanism,through which to address this need. Literature indicates IS capstone courses differ in the weight they place on technology, business, and soft skills integrated as a part of the course. This paper argues it is important to address all three skill sets in a roughly equitable manner,while it is often a student’s technical skills that get them an interview, it is their business and soft skills that get them hired (Litecky, Arnett, & Prabhakar, 2004). The Imagine Cup Software Development,Invitational (SDI) is introduced as a way,to accomplish,this equitable integration. Benefits and challenges in using the Imagine Cup SDI as a part of an IS capstone course are discussed as well as suggested directions for future research.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
AMCIS
soft skills,software development
Field
DocType
Citations 
Soft skills,Skills management,Phenomenology (philosophy),Computer science,Capstone,Personal development,Knowledge management,Capstone course,Software development
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James Parrish131.11
Janet Bailey271.79
Bradley Jensen3133.84