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Wondering if a Carnegie Mellon degree is right for you? Read along as our students chronicle their journey through the MS in Software Management program.

Amin is a second year grad student in the MS Software Management program, a former Software Design Engineer from Microsoft and a current Software Engineer at Adify, a Silicon Valley startup. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, software and traveling. He would love to start a software company someday.
Vineet is a second year part-time software management student, currently working @NetApp also nominated as the best place to work in North America recently. His area of expertise is Oracle ERP solutions. Other professional areas of interest are SaaS markets both technologically and business wise. @CMU he wants to grow his knowledge to manage software products and businesses. He is interested in work on start up ideas. On the personal side he loves to spend time with his family and travel.
Rene is a recent alum, a manager of operations and program manager in Cisco's software development organization, the mother of two daughters and a performing arts fan.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Metrics for Software Managers - First Impressions


In this entry I will explain my initial impressions of the Metrics for Software Managers class. This course addresses software metrics initiatives, fundamentals of certain software management approaches and high-performing team practices.

We discovered in our first week that the students in the class brought a variety of experience levels to this content. Some were new either to the principles underlying software metrics initiatives or to the software management approaches being discussed, while others had direct experience in these areas. We quickly started to broaden our knowledge base through assigned readings and outside research.

The main assignments in this course entailed developing software metrics initiatives for two different fictional companies. The second of these assignments included an in-depth exploration of multiple change management frameworks and identification of a specific framework to provide the foundation for the team’s metrics proposal. Additional assignments involved identifying measurable learning objectives and subsequently reflecting on what was learned.

In my next entry, I’ll explain more about our team’s learning processes.

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