Merry Christmas to all you waste of space BAs and CTOs. I am sure you are having a good time as parasites riding on the back of SEs/SAs and having a laugh . Getting paid for doing nothing must be such an amazing way to earn a living. And to all those non-technical BAs in the U.K. who have magically become CTOs in the directory , continue kissing DM’s a$$ - let’s see how long it takes Cisco to figure out where a major source of OPEX leakage is.
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@2ojz+1eweTNeG name a single customer CTO that could speak to those topics.
Problem is, these BAs and self styled CTOs are not technical. They go on customer calls, introduce themselves as “CTOs”, and then, as soon as the conversation turns to end-to-end solutions, automation, orchestration , ML, Cloud based DevOps - they claim they are non-technical. Someone needs to tell these guys that CTO stands for “Chief Technology Officer”.
@1sot+1eweTNeG That’s because you are in commercial. Little baby customers that just need some netgear wifi.
Apparently a Chief Technology Officer, or CTO, is not an executive like the CEO , Chief Financial Officer (CFO), or Chief Information Officer (CIO) if Cisco has more than one CTO.
I get that, with any organizational structure, there's one person at the top and it broadens out as you drop down, so promotions are harder and harder to get as you move up due to the fewer roles, but creating many CTO roles to give promotions is stupid. Call them a VP.
He-l, in the banking industry, if you're above the teller level, everyone's a VP. I've never seen so many VPs as I did at Bank of America.
Happy New Year to all. on CTO (VP level), just like any large company, there are tons of VPs, we are seeing more CTOs and GMs(General Managers). This is more to fulfill individual ego or creating position(s) for keeping "my" guys with me. Funny Thing on CISCO recently, becoming a Fellow seems to be more difficult than get a "CTO" title. Some CTOs were not even a distinguished engineer prior. Chill up, some CTOs were brilliant but some were nothing but a buffoon just like VPs and GMs.
OP’s tone is a little rough but I do agree that the BAs provide no value. I am in US Commercial and our region had yet to see any value from the BA for our operation.
I don't understand folks like the OP. Bitter, resentful, jealous. But why? What does it matter to you that some guy or girl in the organization uses a BA or CTO title? How does it directly affect you? Recognition problem? They take all the credit for the hard work you're doing? Something else? Fix your life, you have bigger issues than this whole BA/CTO thing.
I'm assuming CTO stands for Chief Technology Officer.
Yes, it does.
I worked closely with an SE from the UK (major global account) that seemed to one day become a CTO.
I'm assuming CTO stands for Chief Technology Officer. Why would any company need more than one CTO.
Is there some other job title with the acronym of CTO? Seems confusing to me to have executive titles of CxO and non-executive titles that use the same acronym.
Sounds like a BA schooled you on something and you’re still bu-t hurt.
Mate, get a life.
Feel you OP. Hope the days of these scroungers will be over sooner than later