The grandparent comment explained clearly why this is. It's because the work that can be done by "codemonkeys" who will hang sheetrock if you give them good directions, but can't make architectural or structural decisions, is already being done by the compiler and other such software, so the only work that's left for humans is the stuff that involves making those decisions.
You could probably regulate "software construction" and mandate specific methodologies, but we can see already what the result would be: just look at the SEI CMM Level 5 Certified software development teams that already exist: Wipro, R Systems, and so on — technically inept companies that only exist to rip off clients who don't know any better.
Any country that mandates that kind of development for all software will be rapidly left behind by the countries that don't as software becomes an increasingly important part of the 21st-century economy. They'll still have human beings laying their literal bricks and tarring their literal roofs, while the rest of us are living in robot-built houses full of fountains and sculptures, or dynamically-reconfigurable programmable houses.
You could probably regulate "software construction" and mandate specific methodologies, but we can see already what the result would be: just look at the SEI CMM Level 5 Certified software development teams that already exist: Wipro, R Systems, and so on — technically inept companies that only exist to rip off clients who don't know any better.
Any country that mandates that kind of development for all software will be rapidly left behind by the countries that don't as software becomes an increasingly important part of the 21st-century economy. They'll still have human beings laying their literal bricks and tarring their literal roofs, while the rest of us are living in robot-built houses full of fountains and sculptures, or dynamically-reconfigurable programmable houses.