[cafebeen]

To summarize, the article suggests making the "software science" job title to:

* "reduce career path anxiety" * "enhance engineering organizations' self-understanding" * "advance the general understanding of the right way to develop software" * "raise awareness about the sponsoring engineering organization" * "bring out some of those 'big picture' thinkers from the woodwork"

The third point is the only one close to the traditional role of a scientist, though "general understanding" takes more than data and statistics from a single organization. Otherwise, this seems to be a pretty blatant misappropriation of the name "scientist"!