[larodi]

you make a valid point, and no - we are not engineers. we are people with printed labels at best, where the label says architect or engineer. but most of these people with these labels don't even have a degree, which is the prerequisite to have this designations. architects also typically need to comply for a local guild.

we, the IT crowd, are long over-due for this formalization of the professions.

[aiisjustanif]

I feel like many places have tried this and didn’t like it or molded it into a Frankenstein.

The idea of an engineer that researches, designs, tests, and measures and a programmer that implements seemed to cost too much (not just monetarily) for the industry that employees them and there isn’t the sufficient need to regulate all sun-groups of the industries that employ software programmers / engineers.