At 11:33 AM 23/01/2016, David Lochrin wrote: >I think there's a tradeoff between teaching the fundamentals, which tends to >require a systematic waterfall development methodology, and agile development >which can go seriously off the rails unless the project leaders, at least, >have a solid understanding of these fundamentals.
all of the above - including coding, design, evaluation, governance, risk management etc etc etc -- oh, and ethics. To single out any element of a complete profession is ridiculous. BUT you gotta start somewhere. You don't become a doctor by only learning about germs or stitching up a cut. Those are technical skills. Yet some people may lead into medicine as a career by meeting a nice doctor who stitched up a cut or a biology teacher who showed how to make a culture. We still need people who do those jobs and enjoy doing them. Also, IT is a team sport, just like medicine. Not everyone can have deep enough knowledge to cover all the topics required. I reckon the whole STEAM process needs to be rethought in how it engages young people. The starting point isn't the ending point. And one person's starting point isn't the next person's. It takes a lifetime to pull together a full picture. Where projects go off the rails is when people who don't know much of anything about the fundamentals -- e.g. finance types or sociopathic CEOs -- overrule common sense by putting a filter on their decisions that have nothing to do with reality of physics. We all know the faster, cheaper, better meme, or whatever the three are. You can't have all of them. But physics is going to trump every time. My daily rant. Thank you. Jan I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jw...@janwhitaker.com Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
