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Yes, but the word 'professional' technically describes a job that goes beyond doing work and getting paid. Some milestones of a profession: 1. an occupation be
by chillacy 12y ago
Yes, but the word 'professional' technically describes a job that goes beyond doing work and getting paid. Some milestones of a profession:
1. an occupation becomes a full-time occupation
2. the establishment of a training school
3. the establishment of a university school
4. the establishment of a local association
5. the establishment of a national association
6. the introduction of codes of professional ethics
7. the establishment of state licensing laws
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession
Software dev has yet to come up with official ethics and state licensing for the most part, verses civil engineering for instance, which you have to be licensed to do.
- huherto 12y agopretty interesting. What scares me about licensing is having all the non coding CMM professionals that evolved into Agile that may end up defining the licensing requirements.
- watwut 12y agoJust because there are higher organizational levels of "professionalism" does not mean that it is reasonable to go there for our profession. Those higher organizational levels should be taken when there is a clear need for them. They should not be taken just because we feel we exist long enough.
- walshemj 12y agoDaniel D. McCracken was involved with professional ethics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_D._McCracken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_D._McCracken