{"id":3061,"date":"2025-11-04T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amberrfield.com\/staging\/1483\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:19:51","slug":"computer-science-capstone-mba-program-a-winning-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amberrfield.com\/staging\/1483\/computer-science-capstone-mba-program-a-winning-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science Capstone + MBA Program = A Winning Combination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been developing &amp; teaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.wisc.edu\/computer-sciences-capstone-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UW-Madison&#8217;s Computer Science Capstone<\/a> since Fall 2020. The program has been growing ever since. This fall, we&#8217;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/amberrfield.com\/staging\/1483\/uw-madisons-comp-sci-capstone-partners-fall-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">22 corporate and non-profit partners<\/a> and 161 students. This includes 11 Product Management MBA students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcoming MBA &amp; UX Masters Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Fall 2021, we started to welcome a handful of <a href=\"https:\/\/business.wisc.edu\/centers\/erdman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Product Management MBA students<\/a> into the program, as well as UX Master&#8217;s students. Why? Well, my goal with the course is to give students as much real-world experience as I possibly can. The projects are real problems that our partners want solved and the students work on teams to solve them. What I noticed early-on is that the team structure didn&#8217;t mirror what the students would see once they graduated. A team made up entirely of computer science students is missing out on a lot of cross-functional skills. So, as other departments found out about what we were doing, I began to welcome students whose skillsets would enhance the project experience. It seemed like a no-brainer and having these students join us has been an extremely successful endeavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enhancing the MBA Student Partnership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This semester, we took the partnership with our friends at the business school one step forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/business.wisc.edu\/directory\/profile\/peter-commons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Commons<\/a> and I devised a 1-credit sister course for the Product Management students taking my class. He dives deep into the topics that we cover from the standpoint of Product Management. 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