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Aug. 4th, 2008 09:32 pmToday, I had a presentation to give at work to the CTO, the design-side product architect and a few colleagues about preparations for product internationalization and a proposal for initial regionalization, focused on one initial feature set as a starting point.
Seems i've learned something about i18n and picked up a little bit of the Steve Ballmer edge in positioning a software package to dominate its target market. At risk of sounding a little arrogant, i killed. I know my stuff, had things thought through and presented clearly, got to showboat a little (my sample elements for the presentation included Sir Samuel Cunard and Lord Governor-General Anthony van Diemen- go-go history geek powers) and present international best practices, and just in general owned the presentation.
Hopefully this will be the start of being empowered to do more of this sort of work, because i don't think the company who has anyone else with any significant experience in l10n and i18n stuff, and i'm pretty certain no one gets as excited about it as i do. Properly, i think, internationalization should be handled by a director-level position, because it's going to touch everything in the application scope, and not necessarily all in the same way or to the same extent, but it's going to be really visible if something doesn't get implemented correctly.
With a few minor edits, this presentation (and probably the next step as well- it'd make sense to do them together) is ready to go to the CEO, and the CTO seemed really excited about getting it before him. Wheee!
Seems i've learned something about i18n and picked up a little bit of the Steve Ballmer edge in positioning a software package to dominate its target market. At risk of sounding a little arrogant, i killed. I know my stuff, had things thought through and presented clearly, got to showboat a little (my sample elements for the presentation included Sir Samuel Cunard and Lord Governor-General Anthony van Diemen- go-go history geek powers) and present international best practices, and just in general owned the presentation.
Hopefully this will be the start of being empowered to do more of this sort of work, because i don't think the company who has anyone else with any significant experience in l10n and i18n stuff, and i'm pretty certain no one gets as excited about it as i do. Properly, i think, internationalization should be handled by a director-level position, because it's going to touch everything in the application scope, and not necessarily all in the same way or to the same extent, but it's going to be really visible if something doesn't get implemented correctly.
With a few minor edits, this presentation (and probably the next step as well- it'd make sense to do them together) is ready to go to the CEO, and the CTO seemed really excited about getting it before him. Wheee!
