Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

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The seminar starts with a team building unit for getting to know each other and is intended to promote cooperation between the students. This creates better cohesion in the semester and opportunities for study and work groups develop. In addition, mutual partner and help opportunities are disclosed and made possible.

The remainder of the course is devoted to the topic of leading software development teams.

The main purpose of this course is to develop the following social and communicative skills:

• Ability to work in a team, willingness to cooperate, ability to criticize: Define goals together in a team and stand up for them as well as contribute constructively and deal constructively with criticism
• Reliability: Adhere to rules and agreements and do your own tasks with the promised quality
• Leadership Skills: Ability to lead teams
• Empathy: Show willingness and ability to understand people and their concerns, be able to pick up and involve users
• Ability to motivate: the ability to inspire others to do something
• Intercultural competence: Ability to reflect on cultural differences in terms of one's own values ​​as well as existing power asymmetries, collective experiences and images of others.
• Conflict management: dealing constructively with different perspectives and interests, recognizing the causes in conflict situations and developing solutions
• Negotiation skills and conversation skills: appear confident and confident in negotiations and represent your own interests and those of the team well

Seminar with a high proportion of reflection, individual and group work, feedback rounds and discussions.

Presentation

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Face-to-face event with compulsory attendance