[LINK] Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?

Danny Yee danny at anatomy.usyd.edu.au
Sun Jan 13 13:02:56 AEDT 2008


Steve Jenkin writes:
> After 50-60 years of commercial computing I.T. lacks:
>  - a taxonomy of disciplines, roles and job.
>  - any way to rate the on-going competence of practitioners
>  - any way to rate the 'degree of difficulty' of tasks
>  - ways to describe complexity, scale, entropy of systems
>  - ways to assess & track practitioner output & work quality
>  - global reporting of projects statistics

All of this is true about plumbing and plumbers, or about teaching
and teachers, and probably about most professions.  I suspect that
airline pilots are an extreme case here here.

Danny.
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