Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?
GOTO Chicago 2023

Wednesday May 24
10:50 AM –
11:40 AM
Green Forum

Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?

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What makes software engineering different from “traditional” engineering? To find out, I interviewed 17 “crossovers”: people who have worked professionally as both a software and a traditional engineer. In aggregate, we learn three things: we are in fact engineers, we’re not actually that different as a field, and there’s a lot we can both teach and learn.