Recently two of the biggest online staffing companies, oDesk and Elance, have released surveys concerning the companies that hire workers over the Internet to do things like write software, and the mindset of online workers themselves.
The main idea is bringing a digital mindset and software design sense to companies that have operated in a more traditional fashion.
They were trying to swing mindset towards software as a service and the web as a platform long before we had the terms that we use today to describe these technologies and ideas.
From the very beginning, the mindset of the software engineering research community has been focused on solving problems faced by practicing software engineers [1], and hence, much of software engineering work is motivated by pragmatic outcomes.
The enterprise software providers have a different mindset.
Perhaps even more importantly, the software-as-a-service movement has made important inroads into the Fortune 500, which has created not just competition against traditional software licenses, but also a new mindset among CIOs.
Something, whether hardware or software, will catapult it into the 21st century mindset soon enough. .
This mindset, however, tends to work better for software, devices and business models than it does for laws and regulations.
The DX mindset can be extrapolated to the field of software engineering as a whole.
It comes largely from an engineering mindset, which is unsurprising given how closely developing games and software have always been linked.
