Re:Programming is not a craft
by michaelochurch on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @04:00PM
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+1. You win this one. At least, we haven't shown that we have the machinery to build a useful credentialing system for software quality.
I think the pain of what we do in the software industry, from the low respect to the bad code, goes back to the fact that our work is extremely difficult to measure, although the importance of quality could not be higher. Corporations have traditionally responded with a 3-4 year bug-fixing evaluative spell, but that's now leading to adverse selection because people like us (as you noted) won't stand for it.
Which is kind of funny because those are the businesses who rely most heavily on vetting done through colleges and universities. They have, on paper, the very best programers available. I guess that goes to show how poorly credentialing actually works in the real world.