What is the Point of Working in an Industrt Where there is a Better than Evens Chance of Your Work being Shelved?

Steve Armstrong () and Aidan Ward ()
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Steve Armstrong: The Open University, Computing Department, Faculty of Maths and Computing
Aidan Ward: Antelope Partnership

Chapter 87 in Synergy Matters, 2002, pp 517-522 from Springer

Abstract: Conclusions What is the point of working in an industry where there is a better than evens chance of your work being shelved? It is a matter of choice and that choice must not be avoided. Our own evidence is that it is perfectly possible to make visible the set of underlying motivations around an organization’s desire to possess a technical solution, so that the organizational decision process is strengthened. This has a far greater effect on the chances of success for the organization than strengthening the engineering process. Our observation is that it also improves the engineering because it tends to remove organizational stress from engineers. If engineers are taught the skills to be able to recognise the context where engineering can contribute, and to be able to play an organisational role using those skills and tools then the chances of their work being used and being useful are greatly enhanced.

Keywords: Software Engineering; Software Engineer; Software Project; Organizational Problem; Engineering Paradigm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47467-0_87

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