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What does it mean to be an "evangelist" in software houses/companies?

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A technology evangelist explains, demonstrates, write about, dispels FUD, promotes a given technology to ease its adoption. Also see Technology Evangelist on Wikipedia.

Pascal Thivent
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It's a glorified job title for a salesman

jaywon
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An evangelist's job is to bring about awareness and facilitate adoption of X : X could be a technology / methodology / product.

It now seems to be gaining traction because it is not easy to bring about a significant change in an organization without having one/more people being dedicated to that task.

Gishu