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Multicultural IT 2 - Development Manager's Perspective
Multikulturális IT 2. - A fejlesztőmenedzser szempontjából
A tantárgyleírás hatályossága
Hatályosság kezdete:
2026. March 21.
Hatályosság vége:
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| Subject name (Hungarian, English) |
Multikulturális IT 2. - A fejlesztőmenedzser szempontjából
Multicultural IT 2 - Development Manager's Perspective
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| Subject code | BMEVISZA089 | ||||||||||||
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| Assessment type | félévközi érdemjegy | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Subject coordinator |
DR. Wiener Gábor
position: egyetemi docens
contact:
wiener.gabor@vik.bme.hu
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| Responsible department |
Számítástudományi és Információelméleti Tanszék
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| Faculty | Villamosmérnöki és Informatikai Kar | ||||||||||||
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| Direct prerequisites – Strong prerequisite | none | ||||||||||||
| Direct prerequisites – Weak prerequisite | none | ||||||||||||
| Direct prerequisites – Parallel prerequisite | none | ||||||||||||
| Direct prerequisites – Milestone prerequisite | none | ||||||||||||
| Direct prerequisites – Exclusion | none |
Objectives
Programme
In the era of Internet marketing all IT products are globally accessible, but becoming a global standard is hardly an option for the majority of the products and companies. By observing cultural diversity and successfully adopting to local end-user needs increases the chances of an emerging IT player to become successful on the global marketplace. Based on the experience gained in the development of Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD the course will demonstrate how deeply a successful product must be diversified to meet local needs. COCOA
In this part we will explore some of the tools available to development managers when starting the development of a new IT application. We will discuss the benefits and disadvantages and we will cover mixed strategies for products with extensive history as well. Our focus will be technical, but we will cover the in-house communication strategies with product managers, QA people and upper management.
This is the second part of a two part course, first part focusing on the perspective of the product manager while the second part’s focus is on the engineering perspective. While the two parts are independent of each other and can be attended separately, they both study the same problem from two different angles with little to no overlap. Often the key in product success is to master both angles of product development, therefore attending both parts is recommended.
Session Outline (by week):
Lecture: Multicultural software –the Engineer’s perspective
Unicode and text in separate files – is that all?
OS support
Application types and their nature
Student presentation: GUI frameworks: MFC
Forming of task groups to design the development strategy of a specified application
Lecture: Use of commercial framework vs. Home-grown solution
Student presentation: GUI frameworks:
Discussion: task group assignment consultation
Guest presentation: the Graphisoft GUI framework
Student presentation: GUI frameworks: QT
Lecture: battlefield stories
Developers talking to end-users
Put to User interface or Preferences file
The single button User Interface
Task group 1 presentation
Guest presentation
Task group 2 presentation
Discussion: conclusions
Task group 3 presentation`
Final test
This course is recommended to students interested in the creation of commercial desktop or networked software applications intended for a global user base. Students will learn to choose development tools and platforms that can accelerate the deployment of software in a multicultural environment and will learn to balance the trade-offs resulting from early development decisions.
Learning outcomes
Ez a tantárgy a KKK rendeletben meghatározott, következő kompetenciák fejlesztését szolgálja:
Knowledge
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Skills
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Attitudes
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Autonomy and responsibility
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Oktatási módszertan
1. Lectures will be based on concrete examples and personal experience.
2. Two guest lecturers will be providing detailed account of their firm’s experiences and failures in the topic.
3. There will be a series of individual student presentations about user interface frameworks. Volunteering students will prepare presentations based on their own research in the recommended reading and on the Internet.
4. A team work will be prepared in small groups related to the creation of the development strategy for a chosen IT solution regarding internationalization and presented by each group.
5. Students will write a closing test to demonstrate their ability and acquired skills in successfully managing an IT product development effort.
Tanulástámogató anyagok
Online források
Dr. International: Developing International Software; Microsoft Press; 2nd edition, 2002. (ISBN-13: 978-0735615830)
Recommended preliminary knowledge for completing the subject
Knowledge type competencies
(azon előzetes ismeretek összessége, amelyek megléte nem kötelező, de a tantárgy eredményes teljesítését nagyban elősegíti)
In order to effectively contribute to the work in the course, students are expected to have previous software development experience. Familiarity with high level development languages like C, C++, C#, VisualBasic or other and previous work in user interface development is necessary. Participation on the first part of the course: MultiCultural IT 1 – Product Manager’s Perspective is not required, but highly recommended.
May be studied in the same semester as “Multicultural IT 1 –Product manager’s Perspective”
Skill type competencies
(azon előzetes képességek és készségek összessége, amelyek megléte nem kötelező, de a tantárgy eredményes teljesítését nagyban elősegíti)
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Recommended (non-compulsory) preliminary competencies
(azon ajánlott (nem kötelező) előzetesen megszerzendő kompetenciák összessége, amelyek jelentősen hozzájárulnak a tantárgy eredményes teljesítéséhez)
In order to effectively contribute to the work in the course, students are expected to have previous software development experience. Familiarity with high level development languages like C, C++, C#, VisualBasic or other and previous work in user interface development is necessary. Participation on the first part of the course: MultiCultural IT 1 – Product Manager’s Perspective is not required, but highly recommended.
May be studied in the same semester as “Multicultural IT 1 –Product manager’s Perspective”
General rules
Requirements:
The grades will be determined based on the individual student presentations (70%) and a closing test (30%)
Assessment methods
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Exam-period assessments
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Rules for retake and resubmission
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Short description
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Detailed description
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Recommended courses
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Workload to complete the subject
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