Buzzards

Maurice Codik, a fellow Sapienter and I were having a random discussion about buzzards that you come across in the IT industry these days. Now, you probably have not heard of the term buzzard but I am sure you have come across many such entities in your professional life.

An individual can be indexed as a buzzard if he exhibits the following charecteristics:1 Excessively uses buzz-words in any conversation

2 Claims to have implemented large scale deployments of technologies released just a few weeks/months ago - you might have come across many AJAX buzzards already and also some RoR buzzards

3 There is a high likelyhood that these people are architects - read Joel Spolsky’s take on Architect Astronauts in the technical domain but in the non-technical domain they are almost always management related folk

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Published:
Sunday, October 2nd, 2005 at 9:24 am
Author:
kiran
Category:
Software Development