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- From: kalakota@ut-emx.uucp (Ravi Kalakota)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.object
- Subject: Software psychology and the role of temperment in the programming team
- Keywords: psychology, software engineering, business processes, temperment
- Message-ID: <79076@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 05:14:28 GMT
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- There has always been a myth that programmers are introverts
- and socially inept. This has never been proven to be empirically true, to
- my knowledge. In a age when software was designed and developed by small
- teams, temperment probably is not an important issue. But in a scenario,
- where we have software reuse, object-oriented frameworks etc. where
- we have larger number of groups and teams coordination and collaboration
- are the key to success, temperment becomes an important issue.
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- Questions that are raised are:
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- "how does temperment of the manager affect the programming team?"
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- "What composition of technical/temperment components would make a person an
- influential team member?"
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- "How does temperment of an individual influence the software reuse process?"
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- I been interested in the psychology part of software engineering. I would like
- to get some input from programmers and managers about the concept of temperment
- and what it should be made up of.
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- Although software psychology, is never emphasised in any curriculum, it
- plays an important role in the programming process. Most CS students don't
- know much about the behavioral component since it is never taught. Software
- engineering is probably as behavioral as you can get without criticism. Greats
- like Dijkstra have criticised software engineering for not being precise. This
- is the real issue, real world problems and processes are not precise and
- cannot be mathematically formulated unless one abstracts the essence of the
- details that add to the complexity. Tenure committees would not look favorably
- at research which behavioral, this would have to change if CS starts doing
- relevant research that bridges the gap between Business needs and technology.
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- -- Ravi
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- Ravi Kalakota email: kalakota@emx.utexas.edu
- Center for Information Systems Management
- University of Texas at Austin
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