Tag: softwareengineering

Let's Bury the Term Software Engineering
Software engineering is not an accurate way to describe what software designers and developers do. We create software in an environment that is constantly changing to fulfill the expectations of businesspeople who aren't exactly sure what they want. Does that sound like engineering? As I'll discuss in this article, physical engineers deal with the universal laws of physics, but software designers and developers deal with unrelenting change. By using the word engineering to describe our profession, we set ourselves up for static processes and brittle team structures that tend to discourage change, rather than folding it into our everyday lives. Once we can shift our mindsets away from engineering our software, people, and processes, we'll find that our teams are more responsive, productive and change-ready than ever before.
 

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