Skip to main content
Software Engineering

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

6
  • 7
    The person who wrote this "matrix" is mostly trying to brag about himself and declare that everyone else should be just like him. Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 7:44
  • Seems interesting though. +1 Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 10:46
  • 2
    @chrisaycock: I totally agree. Much of the matrix suggests that the author has quite a narrow perspective on the subject. Many things are arbitrary, subjective and highly disputable, quite a few criterea are missing and those present are not weighted, which renders the whole thing quite useless. Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 17:09
  • 3
    @chrisaycock @back2dos: Personally, I think it is an excellent list that covers most salient points of software engineering. If he himself knows all this stuff and declares that other programmers should know at least as much, then I think he is quite justified. All items are weighted, from level 0-3, there is no attempt to weight one facet of knowledge against another as all may be required, which come to the fore in a particular instance varies by instance. Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 18:43
  • @chrisaycock @back2dos - Any rubric for measuring what people can do will be flawed, but this one is pretty reasonable. I've always measured developers against something like this list, not always expecting people to excel in all areas (depends on what you're experience and focus is). Commented Dec 12, 2010 at 19:08