What's the market like?

[OwlHoot]

Been back at work this week. Immediately summoned to the US leaving on Sunday.

Huge amount of prep work done. Project planning, task setting. I met with everyone, 1 on 1 and as team meetings. Everyone was tasked.

Come back and the project has moved on inches, not the miles it was supposed to be on. The project manager thought that my deputy was moving it on. He thought that the stakeholder was doing it and as an ex-developer spent time doing coding on something else(I sort of lost track of time he said). She thought the PM was doing it. Meanwhile the developers coded something completely different because the sprintmaster put the wrong priorities on the stories and so they did the wrong sprint.

They've now put my 'pissy attitude' on last nights call down to 'cultural differences'.

Already stressed and not sleeping again.

Please

[MaryPoppins]

Been back at work this week. Immediately summoned to the US leaving on Sunday.

Huge amount of prep work done. Project planning, task setting. I met with everyone, 1 on 1 and as team meetings. Everyone was tasked.

Come back and the project has moved on inches, not the miles it was supposed to be on. The project manager thought that my deputy was moving it on. He thought that the stakeholder was doing it and as an ex-developer spent time doing coding on something else(I sort of lost track of time he said). She thought the PM was doing it. Meanwhile the developers coded something completely different because the sprintmaster put the wrong priorities on the stories and so they did the wrong sprint.

What is your role on this 'project'?!

[original PM]

have you every thought that maybe the team want you out and so are playing the politics game?

#just askin'

[Pondlife]

What is your role on this 'project'?!

WMPS.

I think we should be told.

[MarillionFan]

What is your role on this 'project'?!

Product Owner (by default) but I'm in the business. I don't manage the development team.

My team gathered the business requirements from all the different stakeholders / teams. It's large internal development of a sales force system (as opposed to buying it).

It's broken down into 13 seperate sets of requirements, which form four major business processes. It touches everyone from marketing, to finance, sales, sales operations. That was then transposed into stories / sprints by the dev team.

No single person understood the end to end process. Like some kind of idiot savant, I do and so by default I'm the SME, BA, Product Owner etc

I inherited it from the last guy who quit.

[MaryPoppins]

Product Owner (by default) but I'm in the business.

assumed you were the PM, given the way you've described this role to date.

[MarillionFan]

assumed you were the PM, given the way you've described this role to date.

I took on the role of PM for the 1st three months while the last one quit and it took a quarter to get a new one. She can run the meetings, but doesn't understand the actual project and how it fits together. No-one does.

We've lacked a proper systems architect to be honest.

[d000hg]

I'm glad I don't work on a project where I get assigned stories.

[bobspud]

I took on the role of PM for the 1st three months while the last one quit and it took a quarter to get a new one. She can run the meetings, but doesn't understand the actual project and how it fits together. No-one does.

We've lacked a proper systems architect to be honest.

Sounds like you are also missing a good Enterprise Architect. As pompous as some of them tend to be, They are the ones that look at your organisation and show the leadership teams how they are going to make the change and why its worth the journey... Munging all your business into one great feck orf workflow is dumb as tulip. But you have already figured that out

Market is looking up but you will never know if your area is included in the uplift until your CV is back on the market..

[SimonMac]

Does it annoy other real contractors when permies whinge and think they can just jump into contracting when they struggle with even the basics?