PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES IN I.T.

TOPICS TO BE PRESENTED: 1. DEFINITION OF PROFESSION

2. PROFESSIONALISM

3. I.T. AND ENGINEERING AS PROFESSION IN PAKISTAN GROUP MEMBERS:

HAMZA ALI SYED (FA12-BSE-031)

HAMZA IMTIAZ MALIK(FA13-BSE-039)

SAAD ZAFAR (FA13-BSE-160)

IFTIKHAR(FA13-BSE-005)

DEFINITIONS• Profession is a type of job that requires special education, training, or skill

• Profession is the act of declaring or saying something openly. (Merriam-Webster)

“A profession isn’t just what you do, it’s who you are”

• We say that somebody “is” a doctor.

– Here, “doctor” is a noun

– (“Doctoring the books” is something different!)

• Likewise, we don’t just “engineer” (verb)

• We also are engineers (noun).(originally content belong to Oregon State University U.S. also copied in slides of Dr. Saqib Iqbal

CIIT ATTOCK)

A PROFESSION IS WHO YOU ARE, NOT A CONTRACT.

• “Shame on the professionals who regards their professional function as a business transaction to be judged by the question: ‘Just what do I get out of it?’”

• What “professions” have a reputation for being self-centered and selfish? According to me morally every profession have a reputation for being self-centered but

now-a-days mostly in our country people falsely feel reputation for being selfish

LIFE AS A PROFESSIONAL

• You perform “professional activity of a type carrying high individual responsibility, requiring application of special skills to activities that are predominantly intellectual and varied rather than routine and normal.”

• “Motivation for service takes first place over consideration of reward.”

• “Motivation … implies joy and pride in the work to be done, and self-imposed standards.”

• You have a “social duty, fulfilled through guarding the ideals and standards of the profession, by advancing it …, by sharing advances …, by rendering gratuitous public service, all as a return to society.”

PROFESSIONALISM

• The competence or skill expected of a professional.

“Professionalism takes more than knowledge”.

“Professionalism is a way of thinking and living rather than an accumulation of learning.”

MORALS

Relating to, dealing with, or capable of making the distinction between right or wrong conduct.

• principles

• standards

• beliefs with respect to right or wrong behavior

WrongContrary to fact or reason, unlawful, crooked, twisted, immoral,

improper.

RIGHTIn accordance with fact, reason, justice, law, and morality.

Right or Wrong

ALWAYS REMEMBER!

Keep personal issues separated from the workplace!

UNPROFESSIONALISM

As described in the previous slide professionalism is a very vast term, it includes moral values ethics and also decision making according to me it also implies the mental maturity of certain person in the field that how does he manages conflicts and manages rumours spread about him, and how he tackle the intense situation e.g. if he had listened that his juniors had complained about him to his senior, instead of blaming some of his juniors by self-created mind stories/listening their name from some trouble mongers and keeping cruel attitude towards them he must have firstly fully investigated the issue then after collecting the proves then take some action rather than making innocents people life ruined by threatening them without any reason , there may be not a single complain against them and they would be creating self drama, In this case the real professional would just ignore such type of things and being just concentrate about their professional responsibilities and do their work with full devotion , this type of things just divert the attentions and make workplace full of conflicts. So kindly avoid this.

PROFESSIONALISM TEACHES NOT TO IGNORE REAL TROUBLE MONGERS

I.T. AND ENGINEERING AS PROFESSION IN PAKISTAN• Information technology is the application of computers and

telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

• The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones. Several industries are associated with information technology, including computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, internet, telecom equipment, engineering, healthcare, e-commerce and computer services.

for further reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology

SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGSoftware engineering is the study and an application of engineering to the design, development, and maintenance of software.

I.T. AS PROFESSION IN PAKISTAN I.T. is an emerging field of profession in current scenario, every organization I.T. persons are in demand immensely , as I.T. includes all the professions in domain of Computer Technology, so I.T. is being adapted my many people and the number of people working in this profession are increasing day by day , mostly skills the main thing required for this profession a person having skills in specific field is successful everywhere but for that he must be mentally mature

S.E. AS PROFESSION

Software Engineering being sub field of I.T. is also becoming very common profession in Pakistan, new Software houses are being opening gradually in every big city of Pakistan, and they are interning the persons to be trained them as the professional it includes many sub-professions like coder, tester, developer etc. I was not as such aware of the S.E. as a profession before having experience with a professional Sr. Software Engineer Imran Akhtar who started teaching us Software Construction , motivating us for this profession , training us with the professional environment , realizing our mistakes of past semesters, getting taught my such professional teacher awareness about Software Engineering had been enlightened in my mind, and that’s why I realized the Importance of skills for this profession.

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