Chapter 11
Recruiting and Retaining the Workforce
This chapter discusses the challenges and approaches involved in recruiting and retaining the highly specialized workforce with the experience and skills needed to successfully develop and deploy physics-based codes.
11.0 General Description of the Workforce for the Development of Software for Virtual Prototypes
Developing the software that supports the virtual prototyping paradigm is the quintessential example of “geek” work (Glen 2003). More formally, it is known as knowledge-based work (Drucker 1959), a term that traces back to the 1950s. The main asset of knowledge-based workers is, not surprisingly, knowledge. For the development of virtual prototypes and simulation tools for complex physical ...
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