Public v Private Sector - Making the transition

[Notascooby]

I've found that anyone with any urgency or the ability to make a decision without committee within the Pub-S left and joined the Pri-S either during or shortly after my time on the project. Those who were career civil servants were only interested in their next yearly review score and not being held accountable for any decisions.

Although my time in the various government depts was as a body-shopped consultant and not a contractor, it was pretty much the samething without any the financial benefits. After 12 months I certainly lost the will to live. The only way it works is for any project to be entirely outsourced so day-2-day decisions are out of the hands or you treat the gig as an oppertunity to pursue plan-b or do some CBT / certification revision etc.

[The Spartan]

What makes practice 'best' and who defines it?

Shouldn't it be called 'the practice that worked OK for somebody somewhere'?

Anything that sounds like a buzz word or something that google or FB are using lol

That's what generally happens people latch onto new concepts that sound great in theory but in practice don't quite work.

[Mich the Tester]

Anything that sounds like a buzz word or something that google or FB are using lol

That's what generally happens people latch onto new concepts that sound great in theory but in practice don't quite work.

So the best idea for a plan B is to invent a new 'best practice', sell the book, sell the franchise to lots of insultants and then sod off to a tropical island with the money before someone notices it doesn't work.

[original PM]

Never worked in public sector but I seem to come across more and more people in private sector who have some qualifications (Prince2, ITIL etc) who spout best practice but have no actual idea how to relate it to real world situations.

Is this common or am I just unlucky?

[Mich the Tester]

Never worked in public sector but I seem to come across more and more people in private sector who have some qualifications (Prince2, ITIL etc) who spout best practice but have no actual idea how to relate it to real world situations.

Is this common or am I just unlucky?

Very common indeed.

[original PM]

Very common indeed.

Makes me feel better!

[The Spartan]

ITIL is used a lot in government but anything like ITIL, PRINCE2, ISEB etc will get you noticed but itr doesn't necessarily mean you can do the job. I know plenty of testers who have the advanced certs in testing yet due to my experience I'm a fair way ahead of them fortunately

[Sysman]

So the best idea for a plan B is to invent a new 'best practice', sell the book, sell the franchise to lots of insultants and then sod off to a tropical island with the money before someone notices it doesn't work.

I recall a certain public sector project which took hook line and sinker on some modular methodology or other.

The resulting project ran like a dog.

[Mich the Tester]

ITIL is used a lot in government but anything like ITIL, PRINCE2, ISEB etc will get you noticed but itr doesn't necessarily mean you can do the job. I know plenty of testers who have the advanced certs in testing yet due to my experience I'm a fair way ahead of them fortunately

The certificates have one purpose; to get your CV past the numpties, i.e. impress ignorant, promoted beyond their ability managers with a way of covering their arses if you f**k up, as in 'I hired a guy with all the best papers so it isn't my fault'.

[The Spartan]

The certificates have one purpose; to get your CV past the numpties, i.e. impress ignorant, promoted beyond their ability managers with a way of covering their arses if you f**k up, as in 'I hired a guy with all the best papers so it isn't my fault'.

Mich I couldn't agree more I find the whole thing very frustrating and so annoying. Oh let's make this guy senior because he's got the advanced certification