Renaissance Man
was great. I have been in the IT field, mostly as a consultant, for more than 15 years and have seen my share of platforms, applications, APIs, languages, databases and so on. With ever-changing technology, the demands and expectations placed on application developers increase at least threefold (multitasking in different roles).
A former sales exec/recruiter once told me that I was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. He said I needed to focus on one technology and become an "SME" (subject matter expert), which would make me "a valuable commodity within the IT arena." Then I noticed a big poster in his office that said, "Failure To Adapt Means Failure To Exist!" Without saying a word, I took the poster off his wall, handed it to him and walked out of his office.
Yes, we still need the fundamentals when it comes to application development. And,
Don MacVittie's column "One Tool Doesn't Cut It" (Oct. 16, 2003)
speaking from personal experience, the successful path to the solution that best meets the business need is in the hands of a "jack-of-all-trades and a master of some."
John Duvall, Application Development
Analyst-Adviser, Bank One
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