Professional Practices In Software

Industry

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Professional Practices
• This course teaches you professional software development
practices
• Deals mostly with process, very little with specs/designs/coding.
• If you have the aptitude of becoming a professional software
engineer you will find the course fascinating.
• Otherwise I guarantee you will be bored!
• Applying these practices will help you avoid
• Missed dates
• Poor quality software
• Badly-designed features
• Poor user documentation
• Poor architecture and architectural documentation
• Dis-functional professional relationships between “The Business
Side” and Software Development
• When software is built in a professional fashion in industry,
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Experience

• Need
• Formal education in the computing sciences
• Professional experience
• Build software that lots of people pay money to buy
• Not just “are you paid?”

• Not all professionals agree on what to create “basic

professional practices”
• Characteristic of an immature industry
• But can agree on the problems we are trying to solve

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Parts of Profession
• Today’s professions are composed of three interlinking parts.
• These include
• The discipline, which defines the forward and academic view of the
field
• The practice, defining experiential and agreed upon practices
• The profession, that combines elements of both to provide a
consistent view of the field and the expectations of the members
from an external point of view.

Discipline Profession Practice

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There are certain attributes of a profession that are
consistent through all of the literature.

a) There is a statement of ethics on how the profession is

responsible to society.
b) There is an approving body that has the ability to remove
professional status from those who misbehave professional
standards.
c) Each profession tests for skill.
d) Professions maintain their link to the advanced knowledge
within their industry.
e) The people within the profession have unique expertise that
cannot be found outside the profession.

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Some General Provisions for Practice
requirements
1. Aim and tasks of professional practice
Practice is essential and important part of the international
business management studies.
Aim:
1. Strengthen theoretical concepts
2. Develop skills and abilities
Tasks:
1. Practically to get familiar with principles of international
company’s management in micro and macro
environment
2. To carry out analysis of international company’s
activities and their results
3. To elaborate proposals for improvement of international
company’s activities
4. To do applied research work related to final paper.
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Some General Provisions for Practice
requirements
2. Process of organization and management of practice

• Practice takes place at the 6th semester of studies.

• During professional practice a student works in a

company with a profile corresponding to the study
program – international business management.

• Tri-lateral agreement between the Company, the

Institution, and the Student is signed before starting
practice.
• Student prepares plan of the practice with guidance of
the practice supervisor and in accordance with practice
programme. Before starting practice, the plan is signed
by company’s practice supervisor, institutional practice
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Some General Provisions for Practice
requirements
3. Duties
3.1. Duties of student – trainee.
• To get familiar with program of professional practice
and to fulfil tasks described in the program
• To conform with the company’s internal rules during
practical placement period in the company
• To make notes in practice diary in accordance with
prepared plan of the practice
• To fulfil individual tasks and instructions given by
company’s practice manager
• To elaborate and to defend practice report in
accordance with content of practice

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3. Duties
3.2. Duties of institutional practice supervisor

• To confirm plan of practice elaborated by the student if it

corresponds with requirements of program of professional
practice
• To control, if student don’t follows realisation of practice
program
• To provide necessary consultations
• To promote and to control student’s research for
development of useful proposals development for the
company
• To check and to sign report of professional practice

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3. Duties
3.3. Duties of company’s practice supervisor

• To confirm plan of practice elaborated by the student if

it corresponds with requirements of program of
professional practice
• To provide student with appropriate working place and
conditions for realization of practice program
• To support student’s applied research work
• To confirm professional practice report and to evaluate
in written work of student (trainee) during practice, to
sign and to stamp it.

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4. Volume, layout, defence and evaluation of practice
• At the end of professional practice report must be
prepared and practice must be defended. Volume of
report should be not less then 20 pages (without
appendixes).

• Practice report consists of:

• Title page,
• Contents,
• Introduction: place, time, aim, tasks and methods of
research.
• Description of basic issues in accordance with detailed
practice program
• Conclusions and suggestions
• References
• Appendixes
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OUTCOMES of PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE?
• Recognizing and respecting variety in understandings of
practice.

• Play role in facilitating and promoting international

communication and understanding,

• To ensure that a high level of professionalism

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