organizations in private and public sector assign many projects in information technology (particularly software) field to contractors for implementation every year. previous experiences shows that most of these projects are stopped before finishing or cannot meet the expected results. based on studies related to this issue, many of failures depend on implementation contractor, directly or indi...

There is a wealth of literature about the incorporation of clients with real business problems in software engineering courses. There is, however, little by the way of direction in the selection of projects. In this paper we analyse six years of experiences of teaching software engineeering using a client based approach. We develop guidelines to aid in the identification of clients and projects...