Software Engineering is a continuous process that involves a series of steps. In a nutshell, an ideal software engineering approach starts by analyzing the problem and culminates at delivering a solution. This solution must be both technically and economically feasible.
Feasibility is like a coin. It has two faces: one deals with organizational variables such as profitability and Return on Investment (ROI), the other deals with the technical variables. The attainment of these feasibility benchmarks, thus, calls for engineers who are just as energetic and sympathetic towards business as they are about the technicalities.
Therefore, it does not come as a surprise when I come across job openings that require IT professionals with sound business skills. A recent job advertisement on the Business Channel required Computer Science graduates with strong Project Management skills. However, name me one higher education institution in Pakistan that provides such skills to its computer science graduates. Apart from some round-the-corner apartment institute, you would probably fail to come up with any such institution in Pakistan. It does not take a genius to figure out the ultimate consequences of such a disparity between job specification and higher education.
There are universities, such as the Hamdard University, offering courses in MIS that integrate the business with the computer studies. However, these are not Computer Science programs; Hamdard offers a BS degree in Business Informatics.
Obviously, such a scenario is not good for the economy.
What is the government doing about it?
Does Mr. Leghari (Awais Ahmed Khan) Minister for IT, have any idea?
What are the academics doing to correct this?
What are professional organizations such as PASHA and PSEB doing (other than attending seminars or hanging out with people from NASSCOM)?
Where are the software houses that are always shouting about the government's inflexibility while addressing their issues?
Where is the media when it comes to highlighting such problems?
Are there any students' organizations that are listening?
I guess no one's listening. They would have listened, if they had just taken some time out of their busy social schedules to think along these lines. Sadly, they never did and never do. Do I have any choice, but to be pessimist?
Feasibility is like a coin. It has two faces: one deals with organizational variables such as profitability and Return on Investment (ROI), the other deals with the technical variables. The attainment of these feasibility benchmarks, thus, calls for engineers who are just as energetic and sympathetic towards business as they are about the technicalities.
Therefore, it does not come as a surprise when I come across job openings that require IT professionals with sound business skills. A recent job advertisement on the Business Channel required Computer Science graduates with strong Project Management skills. However, name me one higher education institution in Pakistan that provides such skills to its computer science graduates. Apart from some round-the-corner apartment institute, you would probably fail to come up with any such institution in Pakistan. It does not take a genius to figure out the ultimate consequences of such a disparity between job specification and higher education.
There are universities, such as the Hamdard University, offering courses in MIS that integrate the business with the computer studies. However, these are not Computer Science programs; Hamdard offers a BS degree in Business Informatics.
Obviously, such a scenario is not good for the economy.
What is the government doing about it?
Does Mr. Leghari (Awais Ahmed Khan) Minister for IT, have any idea?
What are the academics doing to correct this?
What are professional organizations such as PASHA and PSEB doing (other than attending seminars or hanging out with people from NASSCOM)?
Where are the software houses that are always shouting about the government's inflexibility while addressing their issues?
Where is the media when it comes to highlighting such problems?
Are there any students' organizations that are listening?
I guess no one's listening. They would have listened, if they had just taken some time out of their busy social schedules to think along these lines. Sadly, they never did and never do. Do I have any choice, but to be pessimist?
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