Agile IT: Thinking in User-Centric Models

We advocate a new teaching direction for modern CS curricula: extreme model-driven development (XMDD), a new development paradigm designed to continuously involve the customer/application expert throughout the whole systems life cycle. Based oil the One-Thing Approach', which works by successively enriching and refining one single artifact, system development becomes in essence a user-centric orchestration of intuitive service functionality. XMDD differs radically from classical software development, which, in our opinion is no longer adequate For the bulk of application programming - in particular when it comes to heterogeneous; cross Organizational systems which must adapt to rapidly changing market requirements. Thus there is a need for new curricula addressing this model-driven, lightweight, quid cooperative development paradigm that puts the user process in the center of the development and the application expert in control of the process evolution.