Software Engineer: Phases of Professional Development

Software Engineer Developmental Rubric

Dimension	Jr. Technician	Mid Carrier Level	Team Leader	Architect
Training	Learns job requirements	Teaches requirements	Teaches Technical Concepts	Disseminates cultural values
Operating Procedures	Told what to do	Standard Operating Procedure	Best Practices	Patterns and Practices
Standards	Writes code, waits for others to test	Test functionality, will settle for working functionality	Oversees build, replaces work that is substandard	Creates implementations of concepts
Requirements	Only works on requirements that are supplied.	Gets requirements from stakeholders	Integrates stakeholder requirements with scope	Integrates requirements, scope with systems architecture and corporate vision. Sets Technical Vision
Vision	Disregards vision, too distracting, too many other things to worry about	Disregards Vision, believes it is just another stupid HR initiative	Uses vision to generate excitement.	Set vision goals to expand the software community ecosystem and incorporates altruistic agenda.
Value System	does not know	personal ethics	team ethics	community ethics
Relationship between Effort and Result	Believes others are "smarter"	Believes excuses, if only everyone else would do something then this would work.	Takes responsibility for outgoing work.	Integrates contemplation of software concepts into leisure activities. Incorporates professional growth into Personal learning and private conversations.
Programming Style	In line	some encapsulation	class hierarchies	Asyncronism processing, prototyping, Interface building
Testing	Expects others to test	Ad-Hoc Testing	Testing Against use cases	Automated Testing Suites

ref: Appendix A: Memetic system for the historical development of developmental research; Dr.D.K.Dirlam