tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22090588.post8820026292840377595..comments2023-09-09T03:49:25.169-05:00Comments on Boonacky: The O-WordUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22090588.post-74820694859815733292010-02-02T10:00:59.070-05:002010-02-02T10:00:59.070-05:00Thanks for posting your thoughts, Peter. I can onl...Thanks for posting your thoughts, Peter. I can only hope that someday our beloved profession will be taken seriously once again and will be placed in the hands of competent professionals, rather than a bunch of indifferent automatons.IndyComp0T1https://www.blogger.com/profile/14723754623261961890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22090588.post-64949340663139021942010-01-27T23:55:59.064-05:002010-01-27T23:55:59.064-05:00This is an excellent post. You can count me as som...This is an excellent post. You can count me as someone who agree and witness 100% of this. One of my managers told me that in a conversation he had with our offshore resources, they consider someone to be a "senior developer" if they have 3 years of experience. 3 YEARS!!! Honestly, I'd consider that to be the start of being an intermediate, but that's just me.<br /><br />MBA programs all over teach their students that outsourcing non-core assets to be the key to running a successful business. There is some merit to the idea, but the flaw in it is how a business defines "core asset". More and more, many businesses find ways of defining various skillsets and business units out of its "core assets" in an attempt to lower their resource expenses.<br /><br />Furthermore, I'm more than convinced that "quality of product and service" is not reflected in their resource budgets or bottom-lines. As far as they're concerned, having buggy code in products and services simply means having opportunity to charge support costs on the customer in the future. (But perhaps I'm just being cynical.) Anyways... I'm not so sure bad offshore development is covered up, as they are simply not considered in the equation. Code and service delivered is "success" regardless of quality.<br /><br />All that said though, many of the business divisions in my workplace is starting to move off of outsourcing to offshore resources, and the few that still do, they outsource to onshore resources who have been onshore so long, they mind as well be full-time regular contractors.<br /><br />I long for the days when "coding" is considered a true craft once again, and not simply monkey labor. I like to think that I'm pretty good at what I do, that what I do requires a level of creativity that is not easily replaceable just by anyone. But ultimately, this speaks more about what a company's C-level personnel's technology philosophy is. Are they a tech-company that provides service? Or a service-company with tech-resources?Peter Lohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00930690456200532641noreply@blogger.com