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Licensing Software Engineers?
November/December 2008 (vol. 25 no. 6)
pp. 35-37
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Philippe Kruchten, "Licensing Software Engineers?," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 35-37, November/December, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2008.149,
author = {Philippe Kruchten},
title = {Licensing Software Engineers?},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {25},
number = {6},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2008},
pages = {35-37},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2008.149},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia
To further your professional development, should you aim to become a licensed professional software engineer? The author answers this question, as well as questions about when and where licensing is important.

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Index Terms:
licensing, certification, professionalism
Citation:
Philippe Kruchten, "Licensing Software Engineers?," IEEE Software, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 35-37, Nov./Dec. 2008, doi:10.1109/MS.2008.149
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