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Agile - at what point do you just tell someone to take a hike?

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    #31
    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    You mean I'm not allowed to write "I didn't feel like killing most of you in the last sprint"....

    FTFY, best to keep them on their toes.
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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      #32
      Originally posted by Mincepie View Post
      They keep banging on about agile here and now they want to track everyones time in 15 minute increments....

      Keep smiling and keep invoicing
      as I'm working on 3 projects outside the PMO's remit on my bosses' Boss's instructions. I don't have any project numbers to track my time against so I put it down as general support. Every 121 I have they ask me how can we cut down the time you spend on support...

      grrr

      paycheck arrives in a few days!

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        #33
        Originally posted by OnceStonedRose View Post
        S'ok... Don't get hung up on it chap, we'll write it on a post-it note at end of sprint and spend half hour drawing smiley faces on or near it whilst every member of the entire group try to out do each other in the "postive thinking" mantras....

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          #34
          Originally posted by vetran View Post
          as I'm working on 3 projects outside the PMO's remit on my bosses' Boss's instructions. I don't have any project numbers to track my time against so I put it down as general support. Every 121 I have they ask me how can we cut down the time you spend on support...
          Flipping heck, statements like that will have some self righteous plums on this forum creaming their spuds in a frenzy waiting to tell you your'e not a "real" contractor!!!

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            #35
            Originally posted by OnceStonedRose View Post
            Flipping heck, statements like that will have some self righteous plums on this forum creaming their spuds in a frenzy waiting to tell you your'e not a "real" contractor!!!
            I'm not I'm a real Permie! Just like my Hero MF.

            Was a contractor once.

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              #36
              Originally posted by vetran View Post
              I'm not I'm a real Permie! Just like my Hero MF.

              Was a contractor once.
              Well in that case I'll retract my warning to you then.

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                #37
                Originally posted by Gumbo Robot View Post
                Sit there, think how much money you are earning for doing SFA and then change your smile to a looking interested face.
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by vetran View Post
                  I'm not I'm a real Permie! Just like my Hero MF.

                  Was a contractor once.
                  Did you take an arrow to the knee?
                  "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                    #39
                    Agile - at what point do you just tell someone to take a hike?
                    Right at the start ...

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                      #40
                      how true to life that is, I'm Alice.

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