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Got a heads up that someone is leaving at ex-clientco (thankfully in a team with a manager that isn't a complete loon), have pinged the manager a "happy new year" e-mail and dropped vague hints as to my availability.
Also asked my mate to drop hints. Contractor who's left is based in blighty but that's not to say stuff can be managed over here as most of their PMs are NL based.
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles
That's the first standup of ClientCorp's new "Agile" regime survived
I'm quite impressed at the way the business world has adopted the Agile methodology and successfully converted it into a rigidly structured process that exhibits virtually no agility whatsoever and ensures control remains within numerous layers of middle management, while still giving the impression of allowing for agility
The government adopted agile years ago. As a means of ensuring their last minute fundamental changes are included in the next release...
That's the first standup of ClientCorp's new "Agile" regime survived
I'm quite impressed at the way the business world has adopted the Agile methodology and successfully converted it into a rigidly structured process that exhibits virtually no agility whatsoever and ensures control remains within numerous layers of middle management, while still giving the impression of allowing for agility
Our record for a standup here is 45 minutes
It's the most meeting-heavy agile project I've ever seen. And they still think agile means they don't ever need to define requirements
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