Co-located Events at the ISoLA Week:
- STRESS 2012 - International School on Tool-based Rigorous Engineering of Software Systems
- RERS Greybox Challenge 2012 - 2nd Challenge on Regular Extrapolation of Reactive Systems
- SEW 2012 - 35th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop
- Graduate/Postgraduate Course on "Soft Skills for IT Professionals in Science and Engineering"
- FRCSS 2012 - 2nd Future Research Challenges for Software and Services
Tracks
- Bioscientific Data Processing and Modeling
- Learning Techniques for Software Verification and Validation
- Model-Based Testing and Model Inference
- Quantitative Modelling and Analysis
- Software Aspects of Robotic Systems
- Runtime Verification: the application perspective
- Approaches for Mastering Change
- Timing Constraints: Theory Meets Practice
- Adaptable and Evolving Software for Eternal Systems
- LearnLib Tutorial: From finite automata to register interface programs
- The ITSy Day 2012
- Process-oriented geoinformation systems and applications
- Handling heterogeneity in formal developments of hardware and software systems
- Formal Methods for Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Linux Driver Verification
- Processes and data integration in the networked healthcare
Symposium Chair
Bernhard Steffen
(TU Dortmund, D)
steffen[at]cs.uni-dortmund.de
Program Chair
Tiziana Margaria
(Univ. Potsdam, D)
margaria[at]cs.uni-potsdam.de
Co-located Event
Graduate/Postgraduate Course on
"Soft Skills for IT Professionals in Science and
Engineering"
Prof. Barry D. Floyd, PhD
Many IT professionals believe that the key to success is the development and application of excellent technical skills. While technical skills are vitally important, industry leaders have developed higher expectations of their technical staff. They need engineers who can communicate, manage teams, provide leadership, negotiate, and develop working relationships with diverse constituencies all with a high sense of ethics. Articles about why departments such as Marketing and Research and Development do not `play well together' are published frequently in trade journals and highlight the need for better soft skills. Industry leaders from BMW make presentations titled “The Effective Engineer: Development of the ‘Soft Skills’” to international engineering management programs highlighting the need by industry for such individuals and discussing how these skills lead to personal as well as professional growth. ABET in the USA, ASIIN in Germany, and other accrediting organizations require soft skills in the university engineering and scientific curriculum in order for those programs to achieve accreditation. In a global, fast paced environment, the engineer must take on more leadership tasks than ever before and communicate and manage across time zones and across cultures. The bottom-line is that these ‘soft skills’ are no longer desired by industry, but are mandatory.
This two day course will, in a learn-by-doing format, engage the attendee providing the foundation for developing and improving their set of ‘soft skills’ including negotiation, conflict management, leadership, teamwork, ethics, and cross cultural management.
Session 1: Managing Conflict - Negotiation Fundamentals
Introductions – Managing Conflict Styles – Self Assessment Exercises (Conflict style, Trust) – Negotiation Fundamentals – Claiming value – Distributive Negotiations Exercise
Session 2: Creating Value
Discussion of Negotiation Exercise Results – Integrative Negotiations – Developing a Negotiations Strategy – Techniques for Creating Value – Integrative Negotiations Exercise
Session 3: Ethics
Integrative Negotiation Exercise Discussion – Self Assessment Exercises (Moral dilemmas, Organizational Ethics) – Ethics – Ethical Maturity – Ethics exercise
Session 4: Power, Influence and Persuasion
Discussion of Ethics Exercise – Sources of Power – Influencing Others – Framing – Winning Hearts and Minds – Assessment Exercise (Type of power, Emotional Intelligence Rating)
Session 5: Managing Cultural Differences
Managing Diversity in a Global Environment – Dimensions of culture – Cross Culture Exercise and discussion – Self Assessment Exercise – Aligning tactics with strategy
Session 6: Teamwork
Team fundamentals – Excellent Teams – Why teams fail – Positive vs. Negative Team Member Roles –Creating High Performance teams – Self Assessments (Leadership Style, Group analysis)