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What’s my title?

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… 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)

2 Responses to “What’s my title?”

  1. Jonathan O'Connor Says:

    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

  2. Dion Almaer Says:

    Nothing beats someone in data services at Virgin who can put on their card:

    “Chief Virgin Converter”

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