A stakeholder win-win approach to software engineering education

We have been applying the stakeholder win-win approach to software engineer ing education. The key stakeholders we are trying to simultaneously satisfy are the students; the industry recipients of our graduates; the software e ngineering community as parties interested in improved practices; and ourse lves as instructors and teaching assistants. In order to satisfy the object ives or win conditions of these stakeholders, we have formed a strategic al liance with the USC Libraries to have software engineering student teams wo rk with Library clients to define, develop, and transition USC digital libr ary applications into operational use. This adds another set of key stakeho lders: the Library clients of our class projects. This paper summarizes our experience in developing, conducting, and iterating the course. It conclud es by evaluating the degree to which we have been able to meet the stakehol der-determined course objectives.