Professions Flashcards
What is a profession?
a subset of an occupation. It requires external validation and testing for an individual to ‘belong’ to.
What does a professional group do?
Gatekeeping
Training
Specifies rules and codes of conduct
What is an issue with professions?
They can be self serving.
Consider law. Consider Jonathan Sumption. Consider his statements regarding establishing gender parity and the dust this inevitably throws up in the air.
What can be reserved in a profession?
Job title.
Job function.
Job title and function.
Give example of job title reservation.
Architects.
Give example of job function reservation.
Accountant.
Give example of job title and function reservation.
Vets.
Give 4 reasons to have software engineering as a profession
Introduce best practice measures
Mature the profession
Provide assurance to customers that the people doing the job are good
Could prevent mission critical disasters
Give 4 reasons not to have software engineering as a profession
Stifle innovation
Most software is not mission-critical
May hinder access to the field
Hard to enforce what quality looks like given the range of different technical skillsets.
Give three examples of potential professional bodies in IS
IEEE
IET
BCS
What are the three ways IT can be organised in institutions?
Centralised: IT department does everything
Distributed: each division has IT
Hybrid: a mixture of the above.
What are the 5 roles associated with IT in a company?
Chief Information Office
Users
IT architect
Business analyst
Application developer
