Dec 08
… and the company needed to come up with titles for a new group …
- Person A: I don’t like the term ‘developer’.
- Person B: I don’t like the term ‘engineer’. I solve business problems, not work on scientific planning
- Person C: I don’t like the term ‘programmer’. I am more than just someone who writes code.
- Person D: I hate the term ‘consultant’.
- Person E: ‘architect’ is so fluffy. I do want to write code
When noone agreed the title became:
Middleware Maven
A title that no one would ever want :)
“maven: an expert or connoisseur.”
(based on a true story)
December 9th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Years ago I worked for Glockenspiel, who did the first commercial C++ compiler. We were a very small company, and we got to choose our own titles. My first was “Humble Programmer”, and later I became “Head of Propoganda”. My boss, the late John Carolan, was the “Persistent Object”.
Middleware Maven is pretty good.
Jonathan O’Connor
December 9th, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Nothing beats someone in data services at Virgin who can put on their card:
“Chief Virgin Converter”