Objective:
Not all Information Technology (IT) involves software programming, engineering, development, or coding. Better said, most roles or jobs in IT are called non-programmers, BUT ALL IT Roles need to know the software architecture (Full-Stack software solution); the higher-level structure of software development; more importantly the flow and stages of data in the multi-tier/multi-layer software solution today.
While the Louisville Institute of Technology Full-Stack software engineer apprentice track focuses specifically on full-stack programmers; hands-on coding daily track – those who found him/herself doesn’t fit to be a programmer through his program and fail as a programmer is NOT a failure; he/she still learns the required key knowledge for any job in IT, and that is a software architecture that he/she can become an IT Business Consultant.
“Non-Programmer” often called IT Business Consultant/Specialist
According to Rasmussen University, the common best non-programmer jobs are:
- IT project manager / Scrum Master
- Over see projects from start to finish
- Software use case or requirements management
- Meeting and team coordination
- Software development monitor and reporting
- IT Support Specialist
- Help customers and clients setup and learn to use new software
- Troubleshoot any errors
- Software function/feature savy
- Software usage know-how
- User Experience (UX) Designer
- Design user interface (window/web)
- Software interface is more than just prettiness, it is more about the effiency of the task usage
- Ensure least movement / click for customer to complete a specific business task on the software
- Develop the look/feel of software expose the best function/feature of the software
- Often involve only graphical design
- Product Marketing Manager
- Collaborate engineerig team and sales team to better position product to end consumer
- Need strong software architecture knowledge to convey the uniqueness, effectiveness and efficiency of the software
- Full-stack knowledge would help this person out sell others who only know one or few stack
- Product Manager / Owner
- Represent endusers, and stake owner (one who pay for the software) and convey expectation to software development team
- Gather data and analyst data to make decisions on what to build and not to build
- Ensure software is build right
- The more full-stack knowledge this person knows, the better he/she can ask the question
- IT Security Analyst
- Responsible to keep critical data off the reach of hacker
- Implement security messure such as firewalls, data encryption, username/password, token-based protocol
- Develop authentication and authorization policy
- Highly critical that this person knows the full-stack software structure, because security is required in every stack or layer
- Network administrator
- Install software
- Configure software
- Maintain software
- Integrate software
- Implement, turn on and off each stack/layer of software
- Highly critical that this person knows the full-stack software structure, because security is required in every stack or layer
Summary – All role / job in IT requires FULL-Stack knowledge
Louisville Institute Technology (LIT) I-HAVE-DONE-IT certified true work-ready full-stack software engineer apprenticeship is for everyone in IT, not only for programmers. Apprentice would not be a failure if he/she found him/herself is not a programmer; he/she can still be in IT in a different role.