In the book "Great Software Debates", Alan M. Davis states in the chapter "Requirements", sub-chapter "The Missing Piece of Software Development"
Students of engineering learn engineering and are rarely exposed to finance or marketing. Students of marketing learn marketing and are rarely exposed to finance or engineering. Most of us become specialists in just one area. To complicate matters, few of us meet interdisciplinary people in the workforce, so there are few roles to mimic. Yet, software product planning is critical to the development success and absolutely requires knowledge of multiple disciplines.
What are these (multiple) disciplines?
Please anyone with insights should help illuminate. Thank You
Obviously in both . For a specific software like C, C++, Java , SQL, ORACLE intra disciplinary coding is most common . But connecting a GUI with a CUI technique
like Microsoft visual studio can be connected to a data base like ORACLE to create a good interdisciplinary user friendly .
You're overthinking this.
Here's what happens in most companies:
1. The sales people discover that their customers need either an improvement to the current product, or a totally different product.
This they translate into a list of benefits to a user, arising from the improvement/new product.
2. The information comes back to marketing, who determine the features which will provide the benefits.
3. The features list comes to development, who determine how such features might be implemented.
4. Development makes a project plan, with timeline/resources/costs, and submits it to management, who talk to sales and marketing, and determine whether or not the cost of development can be recouped in a reasonable time, based on a suggested price/volume of sales.
A shorter answer to your question is that meetings were invented to avoid having to recruit Jacks-of-all-trades.
Obviously in both . For a specific software like C, C++, Java , SQL, ORACLE intra disciplinary coding is most common . But connecting a GUI with a CUI technique
like Microsoft visual studio can be connected to a data base like ORACLE to create a good interdisciplinary user friendly .
Hello Joseph Anumba.
I have developed in my doctorate a technical approach that aims to improve the elicitation and evaluation of software requirements, precisely because of this issue raised by you, but which is also a concern that afflicts many software engineers. I have sought (and found it) in Hermeneutics the key to solving this dilemma related to software requirements. To learn more about what I'm talking about, visit two articles I published last year, available at: https://doi.org/10.4236/jcc.2018.69010 and https://doi.org/10.4236/jcc.2018.65004.
Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development is a process of writing and maintaining the source code, but in a broader sense, it includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software, sometimes in a planned and structured process .
In my opinion, considering the amount of extensive research in field software development, multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary it is can be both.
The answer is YES.
I'm philosopher and information scientist, I will try to give this concept closer to you.
If you want to program something you need to know it essence, therefore you need all possible discipline that have knowledge of that subject.
If you want to repeat something (for expl- web page but with different text or colour shame, pic or game etc.) than you need a set of rules and don't question them.
Both process are call programming but one is developing (making new) and depending what you developing you will require knowledge of different multiple disciplines.
One other way to look at software development being a multidisciplinary field is that developers need to really understand the domain they're working in, especially if using techniques such as domain driven design. If a developer works in finance they'll benefit from a strong understanding of finance, the same in astrophysics or genomics. That's not to say they could leave and become a financier, astrophysicist, or biologist - but they can speak fluently about the domain they're writing software in.
As systems become more useful, they integrate things that used to be separate and distinct. Today, there are many life and business critical domains that require compliance with ever-changing regulations in a highly-competitive context. This is made more difficult by those who would rather steal than produce. Staying on top of rapidly changing markets with software built using sophisticated tools that are constantly being enhanced, in highly competitive and regulated domains, is very challenging, especially when the demand for your on-line service can grow from thousands to millions of users in a very short period of time. To expect typical developers to be on-top of all of these things is a bit unrealistic. Yes, there are a few modern-day da Vinci equivalents around, but most businesses will opt for collaborating cross-functional teams (as described and required by DevOps). Merging the needs of all of the various key stakeholders (market need change, competition change, underlying technology change, tooling change, testing change, operational infrastructure change, regulatory change, auditing change, threat change, forensics change, disaster recovery change, etc.) requires a special kind of collaboration at the leadership and management levels to provide a healthy environment for these cross-functional team to function well.
Perhaps yes.
Software development involves some business logic which is from another field of study.
Therefore it is obvious that software development involves interdisciplinary study.
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