Cult of Personality

Upon examination, many aspects of the programmer personality stereotypes turn out to be accurate. The worker shortage contributes to increased hours for all workers who can be found heroes and others which means less time for those workers' self-education and professional development. This gives rise to a chicken-and-egg problem: We can't implement better development practices until we find the time for education and training, and we can't find the time for education and training until we implement better practices.

Working in favor of greater software professionalism is the fact that programmers are getting older. The longer the software field exists, the more the average age of working programmers will begin to match the age of the rest of the working population. The extreme personal sacrifices that are tolerable to young workers in their 20s become harder to justify as we become married, have children, become homeowners, and move into our 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. As the current cohort of programmers ages, the present hero-based approach to software development may naturally give way to approaches that rely more on working smart than on working hard. More software workers will adopt practices that allow them to complete their projects as promised and still be home in time for dinner.



Professional Software Development(c) Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, [... ]reers
Professional Software Development(c) Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, [... ]reers
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Year: 2005
Pages: 164

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