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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by _bxg1 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:54PM (#23262052)
> These failing systems were probably contracted to a politically connected company that subcontracted to lowest bidder.

And what if that government body established a policy that all contractors had to be certified engineers who hadn't lost their certification due to past negligence? Suddenly there's a much higher floor for "lowest bidder".

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by cybwraith on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:16PM (#23263554)
If the software engineers have the legal capability a current professional engineer certification does to tell the project manager 'no', that might work. Its still less about engineering capability, and more about leverage and protection against retaliation for pushing back on bad ideas/timelines. Even in traditional engineering disciplines, not everyone working on the project is a certified professional engineer, in fact they are usually the minority
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by astura on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:00AM (#23268511)
Good engineering can't undo bad management/process. Project management is what we really should work on to improve software quality
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