Comment on Systems engineering in the software industry

karlhungus@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• firelizzard@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Systems engineering is an established discipline, one you can get a degree in. It’s not just a random term I’m making up. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering

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  • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No one said it’s made up, just that we don’t know what it is.

    From your link, it seems that the “software architect” is the closest equivalent. He must have a broad knowledge in a bit of everything from the code to talking with clients in order to make good decisions for everyone.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Software Architect

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  • karlhungus@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably my quotes implied sarcasm, what i should have said is there are so many hats that a “software developer” or “software engineer” is really really broad like by the wikipedia definition at my current company we typically call those “principal engineers”, or “principal architect”; i’ve also seen them called staff software engineers.

    Likely it’s super domain dependent; the failure cost with a satellite’s or hardware cost you the business. Where with a website the MTTR can be very small. So a large oversight isn’t quite as needed, as the cost is so small.

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