Don't forget CIO, for when you are too old to be a senior developer.

Regards

Sean Cross
CIO
Catalyst Risk Management

From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On 
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 4:07 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] [Off topic] Senior developer

>From what I have seen its when programmers decide to become politicans in 
>their own realm and promote or market  themselves.

You can be any of

Programmer
Programmer/Analyst
Busines software solutions
System programmer
Senior programmer
Senior Developer
Senior Systems Developer
Systems Architect
Software Architect
Senior Software Architect

....and the list goes on.

I worked in an office a few years ago where all the programmers had given 
themselves titles like the last few.

I am personally unsure of the merit of self appointed titles - it does however 
raise the programmers dilemma:

Is it better to rate oneself or be rated by management people above who have 
usually only a vague and inaccurate idea of how good someone really is?

Both have to be risky ventures with unpredictable accuracy.

Personally I have always been happy to called myself a (lowly) 
Programmer/Support person because a good half of the best ideas I have had for 
software have come when I actually do face to face support for real users, 
watching them break or stress or show the bottlenecks in the stuff I have 
written.

John
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