IT Sector in Bangladesh
I am just writing this article for my self interest. This is nothing but my own saying. I am an IT professional in Bangladesh. Doing job in a software company as software engineer. But I don’t feel this sector in Bangladesh is matured enough. And also this sector is not growing in a speed which we expected. There are some reasons behind this. As, I am not a very experienced person my assumptions might be wrong. I have identified few reasons behind this.
The first and most important reason in my opinion is education. We, in Bangladesh, lots of students go to the university to achieve the degree. University is the highest educational institution in a country. But what we learn from our universities? From my experience I will say, there are also lack of experienced teachers of our field. They just know what is written in the books which were printed several years ago. They are just teaching the same thing again and again. They don’t update themselves. They just deliver the same lecture for every batches. So, a gap is created between the industry and the educational institutions. As a result the fresh graduates fail to get the job in the right way and time. There are also faults in the students not only in the teachers. Students often don’t want to learn more. They even don’t want to ask the teachers more about the latest technologies. This is because, they want to know less so that they have to answer less in the exam. I even saw lots of students have passed with a very high grading point. But they are still jobless. The reason behind this is their target in the university time was to achieve the grade not to learn. I hate this kind of students. I also identified a reason behind this. First boy of every batch gets the job in the university. So, everyone want to be the first boy.
Secondly, I want to blame the seniors of this field, obviously not the all. Most of the senior technical guys in Bangladesh are responsible for not developing this sector in our country. They always tried to solve a problem but did not follow proper way and steps of Software Engineering. As a result the clients faced lots of problem and difficulties after using a software for 4/5 years. And also those developers failed to give any solutions to the users. So they lost their trusts on technology.
Thirdly, I want to blame our current developers also. Whenever we face a problem we just solve in the way which we find first. We even don’t want to know more and compare several solutions so that we can pick the best one. Another thing is observed in the developers is they always remain in hurry to do anything. Of course, developers have to meet the time line of a project. But a developer has to prove himself by his quality, logic and style of solving problems. There is nothing beyond art of solving problems in life.
The forth reason in my opinion is the management of software companies. There are lack of managerial capacities in the management of most of the companies. Most of them are professional businessmen who know money only. They just want the early income. They don’t think of their product’s quality also. Again the companies are paying the developers very low.
Another thing I have observed personally. That is our non residential Bangladeshis are not helping us lot. Which is very remarkable in case of Indians. I knew some of them who told me that they always try to take even a single table database system from India. Thus their small companies surviving. But in case of us, we even don’t trust ourselves. If the reasons stated above could be solved I hope we can gain the trust again.
We, the new generation, want a revolution in this sector and we are sure we can do. We have the quality and confidence. We just need a proper care. I may have said something wrong. But all those I have written is my personal opinion. If it matches anyone, I am sorry that this would be just a co-incidence and please try to overcome your lacks.
No more today.
7 Comments
tanim on February 14th, 2009
I m a novice programmer.And really facing the problems.I read u’r article.I also agree with u,,
Nice observation indeed.
Btw keep posting…
SHAKIL on September 12th, 2009
I read in class XI and I want to be a softwear developer. Is it possiable? Its about my life pease answear…………………………..
Saifur on September 15th, 2009
@Shakil, thanks for your interest in this field and of course it is possible if you prepare yourself properly. And always keep in mind that learn properly what you know before delivering that to others.
Best of luck.
Md. Nasir Ahmed on October 28th, 2009
this statement is true and the views about study should be changed. Actually we the people read only for passing the exam not for learning a which must not our actual goal.we become exhausted with this because of our system. From the very root level we used to follow this system.
Anyway, things are should be changed and this is possible. To improve IT sector our students can play vital role as well as teachers and all are required a good infrastracture means lab facility.
Our students should be motivated in practical work because this is the only way to develop their theories to become expart in Developing software. As much as they practice as more they will know and develop themself.
sadia on November 11th, 2009
i passed my Msc in 2003. Now i want to do a course of it section. But How can it possible.
imran on December 10th, 2009
that really matters to us ,to the novice technologists .thanx
I am a simple man working in IT field. I love Music, playing soccer, traveling new places. By profession I am a software engineer and enjoy my job. Currently I am doing my M Sc in Software Engineering in Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. I love researching on new technologies such as programming languages, architectures, tools and techniques. 
Thomas on 
More of less, you’r right. There would be always problem, there would be always cause, however best is what we can achieve from our limit-ness.
Students wants shortcuts, developers looking at clock (rather task), management looking for close a deal somehow.
Less people doing great job, and these are mostly ’small/medium firm’ growing by terms of number and size day by day.
But less people/dev could valuation their skill (most of the time, they even don’t understand the base) from some big company, Vice versa.
Anyay, please keep posting.