In article <pan.2006.03.29.17.45.30.155274@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Peter Scott
<Peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Based upon http://xrl.us/kmqa
, perhaps it's time we established a dress
> code for us in public. What should the well-dressed Perl hacker wear?
> Camel-hair suit, perhaps?
The article starts off with the tantalizing "sandals and ponytail set"
comments, but that's a red herring. The heart of the article is a real
inability of techies to think outside of tech. I've seen this same
situation many times while consulting:
<quote>
"I blame the IT community, I blame the IT leader****p, over and over and
over again, about their inability to articulate correctly the business
op****tunity that we've got here," Quinn said.
(I blame [the IT department]) for not understanding what it is that
they do, for spending too much time talking and thinking in technology
terms, and not thinking in terms of business," he said.
</quote>
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