Aligning needs

Studio learning of requirements: towards aligning teaching to practitioner needs

Research endeavours in software development have found that failures and deficiencies of software systems are often rooted in the requirements activities undertaken. One possible cause is the appropriateness of the education of those engaged with the requirements component of software development. This education is largely based on model curricula used as guidelines for a traditional learning e...

PEOPLE, FIRMS AND SOCIETY Three Proposals for aligning personal motives, firm’s goals and societal needs

Aligning the Information Systems Curriculum with the Needs of Industry and Graduates

Graduates of an undergraduate information systems (IS) program were surveyed to determine whether the curriculum could be better aligned with their career needs by adjusting the balance between technical and business content. A survey was designed and validated to measure managerial, technical, and interpersonal communication responsibilities as well as duration of employment and preference for...

Aligning library instruction with the needs of basic sciences graduate students: a case study.

QUESTION How can an existing library instruction program be reconfigured to reach basic sciences graduate students and other patrons missed by curriculum-based instruction? SETTING The setting is an academic health sciences library that serves both the university and its affiliated teaching hospital. METHODS The existing program was redesigned to incorporate a series of seven workshops that...

Breaking the Cyber-Security Dilemma: Aligning Security Needs and Removing Vulnerabilities

Current approaches to cyber-security are not working. Rather than producing more security, we seem to be facing less and less. The reason for this is a multi-dimensional and multi-faceted security dilemma that extends beyond the state and its interaction with other states. It will be shown how the focus on the state and "its" security crowds out consideration for the security of the individual ...