I havn't been very good about posting but that is changing as of now. I have a few posts stored up which will be coming out. I just came accross something interesting.
Both public and private sector organizations experience a high failure rate for IT projects. Fishenden said a professional body with powers of imposing sanctions for failure or incompetence, such as the GMC being able to strike off doctors, could improve the standing of the IT profession.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6186364.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
Albeit a tad on the extreme side a non-partial 3rd party who allowed regulation of architects and developers would be very nice. I don't think its actually feasible but if it could be it could be quite interesting. I personally envision something more like the way the bar works for lawyers (and I mean the governing body not the bar they hang out after work and beat each other up at).
Groups of peers looking at and scoring performance on a given project could be a good thing. Naturally the claimant would be charged with the expense of such a request, and I am sure they would be rather expensive in order to help remove frivoluous cases.
Then again it very quickly becomes difficult to define "incompetance" ... What about the guy who write all of his code in button clicks of a large app? Did the code work? What about things like scope creep and their effect on estimates which is one of the largest reasons a project will fail? Is it incompetance on the part of the staff for not stopping the scope creep?
In my mind the most interesting part of this is that it is coming out of Microsoft ... At the risk of starting a religious war won't this hurt their profits by alienating many of the VB developers?
Thoughts?
*please note last paragraph is a joke before getting your panties in a twist and putting nasty comments*