2411 Developing Project Managers For IT Engineers Through Managing University Students

Abstract

We have developed a trial course where IT engineers can experience project management through managing projects by undergraduate students. They try to develop a tiny information system for real clients and users. Our experience showed that although projects are very small in scale, common problems that are similar to actual large-scale projects occurred, due to the students' lack of skills and the deadline. As a result of an opinion poll about the project manager's role for managers, we have discovered that the managers' conscious is changing to be clear along the project's progress. We have also tried to analyze the effectiveness of dialog among the managers. This environment has received high appreciation from project managers.