My industry partners were selected based largely on their professional strengths. In the first course, I sought someone with design expertise, since the
curriculum does not include a design course and I felt students would benefit from her perspective.
In the second course, I was experimenting with an agile approach to teach the capstone course. I was fortunate to find an Agile coach who could provide support and mentoring through the process. In the third case, I selected a partner with proficiency in a content management system that many students were interested in using for their capstone projects. In each case, I was fortunate to find someone with whom I already had a working relationship, and who was familiar with our program and its goal of creating employable Web developers. Two of my partners had served as industry advisers to the program.