{"product_id":"9783540760412","title":"The Responsible Software Engineer: Selected Readings in IT Professionalism","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Responsible Software Engineer: Selected Readings in IT Professionalism\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMyers, Colin; Hall, Tracy; Pitt, Dave\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou might expect that a person invited to contribute a foreword to a book on the 1 subject of professionalism would himself be a professional of exemplary standing. I am gladdened by that thought, but also disquieted. The disquieting part of it is that if I am a professional, I must be a professional something, but what? As someone who has tried his best for the last thirty years to avoid doing anything twice, I lack one of the most important characteristics of a professional, the dedicated and persistent pursuit of a single direction. For the purposes of this foreword, it would be handy if I could think of myself as a professional abstractor. That would allow me to offer up a few useful abstractions about professionalism, patterns that might illuminate the essays that follow. I shall try to do this by proposing three successively more complex models of professionalism, ending up with one that is discomfortingly soft, but still, the best approximation I can make of what the word means to me. The first of these models I shall designate Model Zero. I intend a pejorative sense to this name, since the attitude represented by Model Zero is retrograde and offensive ... but nonetheless common. In this model, the word \"professionalism\" is a simple surrogate for compliant uniformity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1996-11-15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e ISBN-10: 9783540760412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783540760412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4471-0923-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 360\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44358649577612,"sku":"9783540760412","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783540760412_082bf385-c4c2-4fce-b3e0-4c60330f4fb7.jpg?v=1755111160","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783540760412","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}