Reply to: What's the market like?

[eek]

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

Shouldn't you have realised that when you began there and spent some of that budget you boasted loudly about on getting one.

Schoolboy error

[suityou01]

What makes you think if you're not cut out for permie work that you could even dream of going contracting.

Try and get a junior BA role in London, keep your head down and try not to get found out.

[eek]

You see that is the difference between the permie and the contractor outlook.

Permie - Disaster. it doesn't work management is going to kick my butt / fire me.
Contractor - Disaster. This will be fun to watch and I'll get to earn more money

[Alias]

Gloria?

Pheeeeeeww! No!

[MarillionFan]

sounds spookily like the project i'm on

Gloria?

[Troll]

She can run the meetings, but doesn't understand the actual project and how it fits together

That sounds very familiar - is she a looker ?

[Alias]

sounds spookily like the project i'm on

[d000hg]

Sounds like they already have more than enough jobs with fancy titles to me.

[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?

[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..

[d000hg]

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

[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.

[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]

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.

[Pondlife]

What is your role on this 'project'?!

WMPS.

I think we should be told.