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Software Engineers: Are we Endangered Species?

May 15th, 2008

* Software engineers will be an endangered species. * High-school and college students will take over the jobs of software engineers. * These engineers will not mind, because there still will be plenty of work. These three propositions were presented by Todd Fast, a Sun engineer, as reported by Paul Krill (infoworld, 2008). The argument [...]

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Do we need an Architectural Body of Knowledge?

May 13th, 2008

I have recently read the article of Miha Kralj on the Architectural Journal about the need of an Architectural Body of Knowledge (ArcBOK). He has a facile model of knowledge areas of the ArcBOK: Design management—Activities related to requirements gathering, modeling, visualization, and communication of IT designs Analysis management—Activities related to analysis, deduction, innovation, creativity, [...]

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What is Software Engineering?

May 13th, 2008

Many people outside the software industry do not know what software engineering is about. Even recently when I was asked at a party “Hey, George so tell me what you do for living?” I answered, “I am a Software Engineer”. I got a semi blank look. I quickly added, “I am a computer programmer» and [...]

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