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Frank Arrigo's new girl

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It's official now, I'm Frank Arrigo's new girl.

It's very exciting to be part of the greater technical evangelism team, working alongside the developer/IT Pro evangelists such as Coatsy, Chuck, Kleefy, Jeff, Dave and Dave!

So the first thing I've noticed is that architects are a bit different to the developer evangelists... specifically, the developer evangelists talk much faster than the architects! I wonder why that is? Anyway, here is my list of top 5 reasons for such a behavioural difference:

5. developers live a hard life - late night coding sessions are generally fuelled by lots of caffeine

4. architects need to articulate complex IT concepts to the business, in order to help them understand IT capabilities, including to those that are not necessarily IT savvy

3. there are just far too many cool widgets one can build with Windows Live, WinFX, etc, to cram in all the fun development, talk is cheap!

2. architects have over time slowed down their pace, as they ponder about IT&T strategy, and shaping an organisation's IT functions takes time and lots of patience.

now drum roll...

the number 1 reason why developer evangelists are fast talkers - 

"developers have overtime learnt to talk fast in order to keep up with the speed of compile messages rolling up the screen"

What do you think? are you a fast talking developer? or are you a slow talking architect?

Now I'd really love to hear from you if you're a fast talking architect!

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  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2006
    I don't know about Fast talking architects, but I do know some slow talking developers :)
  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2006
    Congratulations Anna! Frank's team is very cool (I mean, the AE's were cool too, but a DE is way further across in an Excel spreadsheet).

    Developers talk fast because they ARE compiled, not interpreted. :)
  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2006
    Nice work Anna!

    I think that team needs some more girls in it!
  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2006
    Wow! thanks guys! I'll definitely keep blogging, it's fun! and yeah! I agree we need more girls in Frank's team!

    thanks Mitch - must admit that as a woman, I prefer to be interpreted :-)

    and hey - cool theory - the Sydney Hacker!
  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2006
    You may have noticed my blogging frequency is down at the moment. There's a
    good reason for that....
  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2006
    For this Behind the Scenes, I'm talking to Anna Liu. Anna is organising the Ask The Experts dinner....
  • Anonymous
    October 29, 2006
    I guess a compilation of the 'Most' list would be appropriate to celebrate my 100th Blog Post! So, here
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