I've been paranoid about working in any form of Agile team for over a decade now. I offer quite a lot of distinct services, but often turn down Developer contracts I come across due to the inherent way work is usually allocated - believing that Product Owners prioritising the granular tasks would come under "direction". I don't usually have any issues or worries about "supervision" or "control" as once I'm given the work, I agree a timescale and get on with it, and (more often than not) raise issue / turn down work once I'm on with a project.
I've read a fair few opinions on this - there's also a thread on here from 2008, but as you can imagine the opinions are probably a bit out-dated now.
Struggling to find a new project at the moment (mostly because I often restrict my search to remote work and there just doesn't seem to be much about at the moment), so I'm having to widen my acceptance criteria - looking at some on-site Agile based roles, so my "direction" worry raises its ugly head again.
What are people's thoughts? Worrying too much or legitimate concern? Who sees taking tasks off a Kanban board as "direction"?
Found this article written last year too, which alleviates a fair amount of my worry, but still not 100% convinced.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ir35-...ormed-renwick/
I've read a fair few opinions on this - there's also a thread on here from 2008, but as you can imagine the opinions are probably a bit out-dated now.
Struggling to find a new project at the moment (mostly because I often restrict my search to remote work and there just doesn't seem to be much about at the moment), so I'm having to widen my acceptance criteria - looking at some on-site Agile based roles, so my "direction" worry raises its ugly head again.
What are people's thoughts? Worrying too much or legitimate concern? Who sees taking tasks off a Kanban board as "direction"?
Found this article written last year too, which alleviates a fair amount of my worry, but still not 100% convinced.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ir35-...ormed-renwick/
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