{"id":3033,"date":"2010-12-06T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2010-12-06T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:05:34","slug":"software-developers-do-you-think-vertical-industry-expertise-is-important-to-your-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/software-developers-do-you-think-vertical-industry-expertise-is-important-to-your-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Developers: do you think vertical industry expertise is important to your career?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an interesting session at an IBM Software Group briefing last week Alice Chou, Director, IBM developerWorks ISV &amp; Developer Relations, took us through some data that IBM had obtained through a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/aboutdw\/2010survey-results\/index.html\"> survey about developer opinions<\/a> &#8211; it turns out the vast majority of developers, (upwards of 80% if memory serves me right) polled said vertical industry experience was indeed important to them. Ah here we go:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a name=\"fig4\"><strong>Responses to the                     question, &#8220;Outside of your technical, IT expertise, do you find that                     domain knowledge of the industry you work in is ____.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/aboutdw\/2010survey-results\/fig4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"558\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wondered if the poll might suffer from some sample bias- after all, many developers are horizontal tech-focused thinkers, which is not to detract from their value. So I thought I would ask twitter. I was seeking some colour, rather than the numbers, and I definitely got it.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly liked this from @garethr:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yes, but mainly in the sense of taking something that a specific vertical is good at, then applying it to a different vertical&#8221;. nice!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly state of the art in curation tools for this kind of thing are kind are poor. I tried bit.ly bundles, which worked ok, but made it hard to bring the conversation back here to my blog. I wonder if integration through disqus on bit.ly and redmonk.com might work. Anyway- why not <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bundles\/redmonk\/3\">take a look at the answers<\/a>&#8230; they were really excellent, frankly. and if you have any thoughts of your own please post them as comments on this blog. I am sure someone will tell me I should have asked on Quora&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>So Software Developers: do you think vertical industry expertise is important to your career?<\/p>\n<p>Also worth noting I asked a slightly different question&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interesting session at an IBM Software Group briefing last week Alice Chou, Director, IBM developerWorks ISV &amp; Developer Relations, took us through some data that IBM had obtained through a survey about developer opinions &#8211; it turns out the vast majority of developers, (upwards of 80% if memory serves me right) polled said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developers","tag-developerworks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-MV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}