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You know how they took operations, re-christened it "DevOps", and made it the responsibility of the dev team without commensurate increase in hiring or pay or e
by morelisp 6y ago
You know how they took operations, re-christened it "DevOps", and made it the responsibility of the dev team without commensurate increase in hiring or pay or education?
That, but for account management.
- sigstoat 6y ago> That, but for account management. account management seems different. the developer relations folks have more purple hair and technical skills. account managers are suits who come in at the start to sign the contract, and again later when everyone involved has fucked up to try and salvage the business relationship.
- TheHegemon 6y ago> the developer relations folks have more purple hair and technical skills. I've never heard the term "purple hair" before. Is that literally meaning like... more alternative?
- larrywright 6y agoNot OP, but I think it’s a general observation that a lot of the high visibility devrel folks tend to have fairly colorful personalities. This often extends to hair color. Charity Majors would be a good example of this kind of person (though she’s not in devrel). So yes, alternative. Colorful hair, lots of visible tattoos, etc. A contrast to the sales folks, who are typically the opposite.
- swyx 6y agoshe's not "in" devrel but certainly every time she speaks she is performing that function (very well i might add) devrel isnt really limited to people who formally hold that title. anyone in the company speaking to customers and potential users is doing devrel.
- larrywright 6y agoThat’s a good point. She doesn’t have that title but it’s definitely what she does.