General Knowledge :: Computer Industry

People in different software houses strongly feel that, following the software engineering rules/process based approach would delay their product's deliverable, so how is this possible for medium sized organizations to follow the process based approach since the delay in the patch/release is unbearable because we always say that "USER FIRST" considering the amount of revenue they generate. I totally agree with the fundamentals of the Software Engineering.

My question is how the importance of the quality standards can be realized at the highest management level in medium and small sized organizations with a concept explained above...to me Standardization of IT industry in Pakistan is the biggest challenge. I firmly believe that with the best leadership and guidance our IT industry can achieve new heights in the coming years.

Rashid main issue in our country is to make people realize the true need of Process Standardization. Contacting to Inspection and certification organizations comes 2nd

Even Software Engineering Institute is sharing only % increase or Decrease terminologies when they communicate benefits and what i have experienced companies respond as either they have no clear root level picture of real figures or it could not suit Pakistani market as the communicated benefits are taken from foreign market.

One of the key issues to start up is the uneven status quo and it will stay that way in a segregated skills development environment. Techies are still far from business development and marketing management, financial management and access to unconditional credit, quality management and expansion opportunities. Young Entrepreneurs starting businesses on shoestring capital have to do lean start up management and bootstrap their way up.

An entrepreneur and graduate from LUMS is not as financially and skills handicapped as one from Islamia University Bahawalpur when it comes to venture start ups.

There are opportunities for less and hardships for the majority. Quality and standards become secondary until a certain level of business growth and accomplishment is achieved. Even a shopkeeper and paanwala are Entrepreneurs in the basic sense but education and exposure do help in creating an edge helping one go from Micro to Small and Medium business enterprising.

For Pakistan to create the next wave of one million ICT/IT/ITES start ups and jobs, an approximate of 6000 micro enterprise, 3000 small and medium enterprises and flourishing these into 1200 full-scale enterprises are required within the next 7 years. Pakistan needs a technology index like Nasdaq or Dubai to list only ICT/IT/ITES companies for the next wave of entrepreneur-led IPOs and high risk high return investment ecosystems.

We have to take the Pakistani IT ecosystem beyond the remit of proprietary software tweaking into open systems and free and open source innovation. We have to radically transform our education system and highly subsidize ICT education and feed a culture of smart education across the country. We need to rethink the fundamental economic factors of ICT and Innovation in Pakistan. We need a renewed vision and Innovation policy to evolve a culture of localized content development for the masses. We need hundreds of planes and social innovation and enterprise activities. We need to immediately fund Code for Pakistan and Code for Lahore and Code for Karachi and Code for Peshawar Hackathons! We need to enterprise on Open Data. We need to wake up!

A very good answer. But my point of view is little different from Ghauri. The problem I see in Pakistan IT industry is the proper division of roles ( a cmmi property) and both CEOs and workers immaturity. First CMMI and other standards are key to get you in top markets. So why we are not following it. The reason is simple. Lack of training and poor skill set. Cmmi don't make your profit margins short neither does it lengthen your time line. Actually these two are the basic objective of standardisation with quality software. So why don't we follow it.

I have discovered this fact that a little work skill training is required for working without standards since there is no constraint and you can do anything on the name of innovation. With standards comes the constraints and your skill is tested. That is why most IT professional with poor skills avoid standards. Similarly companies which hires and fires people a lot. Not able to follow standards. Both phenomenon are true in Pakistan.

From last 20 years, Pakistan IT industry has been small and struggling and this will continue until we make our universities better and work culture stronger

Actually quality / standard adaptation takes you to the peak of perfection in terms of Process and for making it better we definitely need toput EXtra Extra Extra in terms of money HR and Learning of course Lakin once your company's process is defined well and is flexible enough to compete well Then Good time comes in and all Extra EXtra things start cut off and naturally.. While enjoying better and higher predictability in your daily tasks i.e through Process.

I think those companies who are striving for perfection deserves fame in Foreign market

I think main reason is awareness , new IT industries have lake of awareness about software Engineering practices , i think good and leading IT companies should arrange some National Conformance about Engineering Practices and Advantage of Software Engineering .

Netsole in my eyes really a good leading IT company in Pakistan, and Netsole should arrange some events and National Conference on Software Engineering. Write some white paper that gives awareness to new IT industries. Give them awareness what kind of quality failure they face without SE practices.

NetSol was of 6 years when it got certified CMM Lvl2 and was 10 years when got its CMMI Lvl 5. It cost over $100k to keep certification up to date every three years. High cost for a small company.

Ministry IT is approving a budget to subsidies Pakistani IT companies to get CMM certifications.

My advise to new companies. First five years work ISO standards. Built a quality aware team and establish Quality Engineering department. QE is independent of Quality Assurance department.

We should also arrange regular IT / Tech events in Pakistan. Just like Disrupt( TechCrunch Event ) because it will bring much more entrepreneur and creative people on front. Secondly i don't know why government is not putting it's best in IT business.

Quality only comes when companies have any business . It's a great thread to read about people views about Tech Industry.

I do wish that software services providers instead of just "PURCHASING" the compliance/standards levels, actually 'ADOPT' it. But again this is not just only the situation of our market, its happening worldwide and Alhamdullilah we are developing much better when it comes to quality , despite the fact that our IT market is still very young and in the process of growth if compared with other Asian markets.

Actually practices and procedures are ignored when the job needs to be done/done. The main reason seems to be competition/cost, I have also seen organizations that have removed the entire layer of procedures and follow the term RAPID development .

The client actually doesn't give a DIME on what standards are being followed , resulting by many vendors in squeezing the timelines to the extent that quality starts to hurt. This can be improved once the C-Suite realizes the importance of these standards, when it comes to Long Running.

Event the start up’s should strive for implementing processes. It does not necessarily mean that you should implement ISO or CMMI but you can have basic processes defined & as you go along you can refine them in harmony of Industry standards like ISO /CMMI. It will help you in cost efficiency and quality delivery. It is easier to implement the process when you have a small team.

What mistake we do here is we don’t follow any processes at all and then all sudden we try to implement CMM/ISO which puts immense pressure on the team and affect their performance badly.

As we are talking about the service industry and in our industry, where it’s all about 'People and Processes'