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This was a rather stupid and insulting comment if anyone was actually let go by this company!Only those that deserved it
What an excellent question!! Great way to see if they can spot & solve inefficencies! We used to do "brown bag" lunches with staff and rather than just being a venting opportunity for them, we would ask them to suggest solutions....they often came up with some excellent ideas that generally worked really well.
I keep hearing about the thousands of vacancies in IT - so where are they?!
My last contract ended just before Christmas, took a few weeks off and now am hitting the agencies etc.
They are all saying that things are very "quiet" - talk about understatement.....
So where would a talented (such as myself) QA/BA/PM with software, telco, banking, eLearning and innovative R&D experience find just one job?
Anyone have any ideas?
dtlyn: I agree that the role definition of BA or PM varies between companies. If someone is a total technologist, they generally do not want to get into contract negotiations, personnel issues, strategic and implementation planning, dealing with customers etc. A good PM will keep all of that “noise” away from a development team to ensure the team can focus on their core expertise.
One of the problems with the idea that “well rounded software engineering teams...cut across the need to dedicated BAs or PMs” is that they see the technology development as an end in itself.
Example: Say you have a project to restructure an organisation that is technology enabled. Technologists will deliver a product (perhaps even on time, reasonable quality) and that would be it. They won’t anticipate problems with unions, training of people to use the product, transitioning legacy systems to the new system nor how it will be sustained in the future. That’s what a good PM will sort out.
The biggest cause of IT project failure is the lack of clearly defined, well communicated and delivered requirements. That’s what a good BA will produce.
Highly technical people who self-train out of interest and see such learning not only as an expense to be written off against tax but an opportunity to expand their interests. People Moreover, the type of graduate that got into the business for the work, and not the money.
In my opinion, ff you see yourself in the above category then, keep looking, you'll def find something.
The more experience I get in the industry, the more I can see that the above profile is quite a rare but highly valued commodity.
"and have to hire on the mainland and in the UK"! Where do you operate from, Skellig Michael?Excellent post which holds true for many jobs.
Different area but despite the recession we cannot get people with the right skill level in Ireland and have to hire on the mainland and in the UK.
Lets not get off topic though!
Cripes! Sorry about that. Had forgotten. It just looked funny.