Timeline for Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
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| Jul 30, 2016 at 15:46 | comment | added | user22815 | Our on-topic list touches on the jobs of project managers, QA automation engineers, business analysts, scrum masters and other project facilitators, just to name a few. Our on-topic list is already basically "software engineering and the product lifecycle" of which programming is only one component. Yes, software developers are often included in more than only programming, but the activities in that lifecycle encompass far more than only programming. I have been a proponent of changing the name to "software engineering" for far longer than this proposal has been put forth for those reasons. | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 10:34 | comment | added | Thomas Owens Mod | Our name is not accurate. Have you ever tried to explain that questions of interest to a software architect, a software manager, a CMMI appraiser, or a software quality engineer belong on a site called Programmers? I have - it's not easy, since these people don't consider themselves to be programmers. Have you ever tried to convince someone that this site doesn't exist just to ask programmers questions? Again, I have and it's not easy. People don't understand closed/on-hold questions and don't read the help center, just basing the scope on the name. | |
| Jul 30, 2016 at 4:32 | history | answered | Joe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |