Software Engineering Management
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Software engineering management can be defined as the application of management activities — planning, coordinating, measuring, monitoring, controlling, and reporting — to ensure that software products and software engineering services are delivered efficiently, effectively, and to the benefit of stakeholders.
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- Snippet from Wikipedia: Software engineering
Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. A practitioner, a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to develop software.
The terms programmer and coder overlap software engineer, but they imply only the construction aspect of typical software engineer workload.
A software engineer applies a software development process, which involves the definition, implementation, testing, management and maintence of software systems and with development of the software development process itself.