The assumptions that programmers do semiskilled blue-collar work -- and hence that they are virtually interchangeable and can be hired and fired at will -- are reminiscent of Taylorism as it came to be understood. Yet there can hardly be any domain in which those assumptions are less appropriate than software development.
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Tom Welsh is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business & Enterprise Architecture practice. He is an independent consultant and analyst specializing in middleware, object technology, and software engineering. At Digital Equipment Corporation, Mr. Welsh was a hardware technician, software support specialist, corporate software developer, and senior technology consultant, before taking on the task of marketing Digital's OO software… Read More
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