The reason why some engineers feel not be taken seriously, could not be better shown as in the foreword of The Clean Coder - A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers - R. Martin (Pearson, 2011) : It all starts a short time ago in a place not too far away. Cue the curtain, lights and camera, Charley .... Several years ago I was working at a medium-sized corporation selling highly regulated products. You know the type; we sat in a cubicle farm in a three-story building, directors and up had private offices, and getting everyone you needed into the same room for a meeting took a week or so. We were operating in a very competitive market when the government opened up a new product. Suddenly we had an entirely new set of potential customers; all we had to do was to get them to buy our product. That meant we had to file by a certain deadline with the federal government, pass an assessment audit by another date, and go to market on a third date. xiii F OR