Are you Softician ???

Very good article about "Life Of engineers and mechanics" and Commoditisation of computing skills has created a new breed of software engineers: ‘softicians’.

http://business.outlookindia.com/print.aspx?articleid=1530&editionid=40&catgid=13&subcatgid=370

Excerpt from the article:

Code writers will be on top of the emerging industry pyramid, followed by developers and softicians

Let’s look at the Indian software services industry to get some answers. The industry today is worth more than $40 billion. The export industry initially took off by offering to do low-end coding and maintenance work cheap. However, over the last 20 years, many companies, especially the big ones, have climbed up the value chain, and are doing complex work as well as simple coding, testing and maintenance work.

Today, the Indian software industry has figured out a way to succeed in the global services market by creating hybrid teams that are a mix of excellent engineers (about 30%) and average engineers (around 70%). The industry today commands 85% of the global offshoring market, so the model is obviously working well.