At some companies, job titles are signs of status – it matters whether you’re a developer, a senior programmer, an enterprise architect, a process consultant, or whatever. It seems this phenomenon has also penetrated the conference business.
If you take a quick look at the list of speakers at JAOO 2009, you’ll probably see what I mean. Sure, there are the usual bunch of developers, CTOs, CEOs, and so on, but… what’s up with
- Software Simplist
- Wizard of Open Source
- Agile Sceptic
- Agile Troublemaker
- Sanitation Engineer
The list goes on – shouldn’t there be some kind of system to this? I feel chaos closing in…
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People are always surprised when I claim that my job title is programmer, asking me if I don’t mean software engineer instead.