Reply to: Plagarism

[Lucifer Box]

No problem....PMOs are a nice little earner.

PS. Check your mail.

I know, I helped set one up at a large telco... ker-ching!

I've left a deposit in your box in return.

[WageSlave]

Wasn't sure what it stood for. Nothing suspicious.

No problem....PMOs are a nice little earner.

PS. Check your mail.

[Lucifer Box]

Why the question about the PMO?

Wasn't sure what it stood for. Nothing suspicious.

[WageSlave]

That all depends on how you define management consultancy and business analysis. If you want, you can even describe management consultancy as project management, even though it isn't. Certainly if you are involved in matrix management...that's a form of organisational design...kerching...

Why the question about the PMO?

[Lucifer Box]

I'm a man with many hats, Slave. On balance, I've done more BA work (10-ish years) than management consultancy stuff (5-ish years).

[WageSlave]

As opposed to having a BA you mean?

Well I presume you're a BSc.

But I actually meant are you a bona fide BA, because your description of your work doesn't sound much like a BA. Sounds more like a management consultant.
There's a definite ceiling on BA rates, whereas management consultants can charge whatever they like. So if you're marketing yourself as a BA when you're really a management consultant....

[Lucifer Box]

Are you sure you're a BA?

As opposed to having a BA you mean?

[WageSlave]

I'm a BA who's done a bit of matrix management.

Are you sure you're a BA?

[Lucifer Box]

I'm a BA who's done a bit of matrix management.

[WageSlave]

PMO? Programme Management Office?

Indeed, Lucifer, indeed it is.

[Lucifer Box]

Bingo

If you come across a BA touting a PMO with matrix management capability, let me know!

PMO? Programme Management Office?

[WageSlave]

Unless, of course, you mean there is a contract but just that you haven't signed it, in which case by turning up for work you have accepted its T&Cs anyway.

Bingo

If you come across a BA touting a PMO with matrix management capability, let me know!

[Lucifer Box]

Lucifer, to be perfectly honest, I haven't signed contract But I suspect any work developed becomes the property of the client. I'll certainly have to have a word with the client's legal department, although judging by what I've seen, I doubt they would be interested and/or effective.

Quite the reverse I would have thought, Slave. In the absence of a signed agreement to the contrary, IP usually resides in the originator, i.e. you. In that case, have you granted your client an exclusive or non-exclusive license to use your work?

Unless, of course, you mean there is a contract but just that you haven't signed it, in which case by turning up for work you have accepted its T&Cs anyway.

[WageSlave]

There may, however, be some element of monkey spanking....

[WageSlave]

also you have been saying for a while you are on a management etc contract, so what are you doing developing solutions like a code monkey??

Sandy, the solutions I am developing have nothing to do with coding. The models in question are organisational designs; processes, interfaces, project & programme management, knowledge management, matrix management.... SLAs, SDMs, etc.