Comment Re:Degree is not the be all (Score 1) 467
Ah, but I've done the same thing through an online course.
Software Engineering, we had to do a full life cycle project with a team of three people. One of us was in East Tennessee, one in Middle Tennessee, and the other in West Tennessee.
We decided to treat it like an open source project. Set it up on SourceForge, met at least twice a week online via MS Messenger, sent a butt-load of email, made phone calls, and eventually did two video presentations with the instructor.
Frankly, I learned a lot about leading a programming team and motivating people that I hadn't learned on the job due mostly to the fact that I couldn't be physically present to the other team members. I had to make them want to do the work.
Software Engineering, we had to do a full life cycle project with a team of three people. One of us was in East Tennessee, one in Middle Tennessee, and the other in West Tennessee.
We decided to treat it like an open source project. Set it up on SourceForge, met at least twice a week online via MS Messenger, sent a butt-load of email, made phone calls, and eventually did two video presentations with the instructor.
Frankly, I learned a lot about leading a programming team and motivating people that I hadn't learned on the job due mostly to the fact that I couldn't be physically present to the other team members. I had to make them want to do the work.
