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Designing a multi-faceted metric to evaluate soft skills

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We describe the development of a multi-faceted metric for assessing soft skills of aspiring information systems developers who may become involved in team efforts to design, build or extend complex software-intensive solutions in organizational settings. The development involved a combination of meta-analysis of prior work, analysis of data gathered from novice systems developers, and coding by experts. We briefly illustrate how the metric and accompanying assessment procedures may be employed.

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SIGMIS-CPR '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research on Computer personnel research
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