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Do you mean we should unionize?
by droidist2 14y ago
Do you mean we should unionize?
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoLawyers don't unionise - they have professional ethics bodies. The difference is that when the law is code, and code law, we shall have a professional ethics body too. When programmers can do real damage and affect real lives they naturally gravitate to professional considered advice Look at JPL or NASA, or a medical devices company. The level of testing and reliability there is astounding - but so is the cost. And one day the engineers will find a way of capturing all that cost.
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- michaelochurch 14y agoThe problem with unionization is that it works well when the work is a commodity, and software engineering isn't. The 10x (and 100x, and -25x) programmer phenomenon is real, but individual performance is nearly impossible to measure on a quarterly basis. We need some traits of old-style professionalism: autonomy and the right of self-investment. A profession is a set of ethical rights and obligations that supersede managerial authority. That's what we need. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-dont-need-a-union-we-need-a-profession/ http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d...
- rdouble 14y agoUnionization works reasonably well for the entertainment industry.
- walshemj 14y agoOne one of the reasons for the lack of push back from the unions over the modernization of the UK's telco infrastructure was that the people building system X etc where Union members. and the BMA and AMA do quite well for there members.