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I think the buzzword abuse exists because of people who don't want to take the time to learn to real skill, and just want shortcuts to sound smart and relevant.

I think the buzzword abuse exists because of people who don't want to take the time to learn to real skill, and just want shortcuts to sound smart and relevant. I am very skeptical of people who are "BizDev" or "Project Managers" or "Managers" or "Scrum Master" they generally don't know what they're talking about and rely on buzzwords.

mamcx 10y ago
Not necessarily. I suspect that people that have overlap in hist job positions but still need to use a "shared vocabulary" will diverge in their understanding of each word, not by laziness but because simply is another job. For example, if a DBA and a JS Developer say "We need to use a scalable database", they probably don't have the same thing in mind about what "scalable" or "database" exactly is, however, both are concerned about provide data at performance. So, if a naive web developer wanna "a scalable document stored!" you can just give to it postgres and presto! ::troll:: ;)
pyre 10y ago
I'm wondering why you have managers in scare quotes. Are you suggestion that they aren't really managers or that managers as a position is just some sort of fraud? Also Project Manager and Scrum Master are just positions that describe roles and responsibilities an organization / on a team. The people filling those roles needn't be clueless.
- artellectual 10y ago
  I feel people in those positions are just people who want a job in tech / startup and have gotten there not because they deserve those positions but because, they've given up on learning the skills and resorted to becoming a "manager". At least from my experience this is what I've seen. They generally don't really add any value because they don't have any skills, don't know how to do anything. The positions I mentioned above are usually the position people who failed at picking up any valuable skill seem to resort to.

mamcx 10y ago

Not necessarily. I suspect that people that have overlap in hist job positions but still need to use a "shared vocabulary" will diverge in their understanding of each word, not by laziness but because simply is another job. For example, if a DBA and a JS Developer say "We need to use a scalable database", they probably don't have the same thing in mind about what "scalable" or "database" exactly is, however, both are concerned about provide data at performance. So, if a naive web developer wanna "a scalable document stored!" you can just give to it postgres and presto! ::troll:: ;)

pyre 10y ago

I'm wondering why you have managers in scare quotes. Are you suggestion that they aren't really managers or that managers as a position is just some sort of fraud? Also Project Manager and Scrum Master are just positions that describe roles and responsibilities an organization / on a team. The people filling those roles needn't be clueless.

artellectual 10y ago
I feel people in those positions are just people who want a job in tech / startup and have gotten there not because they deserve those positions but because, they've given up on learning the skills and resorted to becoming a "manager". At least from my experience this is what I've seen. They generally don't really add any value because they don't have any skills, don't know how to do anything. The positions I mentioned above are usually the position people who failed at picking up any valuable skill seem to resort to.