202312161442 Software Craftsmanship

Software craftsmanship is a long journey to mastery. It’s a mindset where Software developers choose to be responsible for their own careers, constantly learning new tools and techniques and constantly bettering themselves. Software craftsmanship is all about putting responsibility, professionalism, pragmatism, and pride back into software development.¹

Or more shortly

Software craftsmanship is about professionalism in software development.¹

Software craftsmanship is a movement in 202109061338 Software Engineering. Though it is broadly a movement about professionalism and quality, most people active in this movement are proponents of things like Test Driven Development #thread, Pair Programming #thread, Mob Programming #thread, and “Clean Code” #thread. This reality directly contradicts the statements made by Mancuso in his book 202312091323 The Software Craftsman. Because of this contradiction, I have trouble feeling like the movement is net positive in the way that the Agile movement, eXtreme Programming (XP), and Lean Programming have all also failed as religions without context or flexibility. “You’re not doing it right or hard enough”. However, similar to those movements I do still agree with many of the underlying values even if the commodification of those values inevitably fail.