Software Development Management
I am wandering the halls of a technical conference, in Sandusky, Ohio this week. Its called CodeMash. While the presentations are solid, the real value add has been and always will be the hallway conversations with people in the tech field. One thing I have noticed this week is a subtle but important change in business protocol. We no longer exchange business cards, we now exchange twitter handles.
You know when you are really excited about something a bit unusual and you just can’t seem to get anyone else to understand what it is you keep going on about? For the last year Sazbean Consulting has been quietly working with a tiny group on this first of its kind web project, Sharespost, that is doing really interesting things in the finance industry. But unless you were a private investor or a private equity stock holder like a Facebook employee, it was really hard to understand what the site was all about.
Then CNBC ran this spotlight on Sharespost comparing it to Ebay for Private Equity. I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Have you noticed that Industry insiders like to invent their own language? You are following along in a fascinating conversation about some interesting aspect of something and just when it is all coming together and you can sense a real strong point being made, the speaker looses you completely on some strange term or phrase or, god forbid, acronym that they just assume everyone must grok*.