Pimp needs a developer with XYZ skill, which is incredibly rare here in the UK. I don't have this skill, but have many many many years in a very very similar product.
I was thinking about doing the training course and have some budget in the training kitty. Pimps client has said this would be acceptable. I have experience in other similar products and have successfully cross trained before in a short space of time.
Today client co have decided to fill the role internally. This means taking some devs, sending them on a training course and then expecting them to "hit the ground running".
It's a good plan, except that once you switch from regular development to BPM, without at least 18 months solid experience of building business processes, you are going to be making rookie mistakes with no one on hand to help you learn the error of yours ways. A big part of my business is re-writing pap written by inexperienced hacks.
So the cost of the training, and then the technical debt they will rack up from day 1 is considerably large. This means that someone has consciously made this decision. This in my mind means they are mental, and the project is on a collision course.
So I concur this would be a nightmare gig, and if they come around in a few weeks looking to warm things up again I will probably price myself out.
What is it with modern companies that they make such bizarre decisions? Would you get this in any other profession?
I was thinking about doing the training course and have some budget in the training kitty. Pimps client has said this would be acceptable. I have experience in other similar products and have successfully cross trained before in a short space of time.
Today client co have decided to fill the role internally. This means taking some devs, sending them on a training course and then expecting them to "hit the ground running".
It's a good plan, except that once you switch from regular development to BPM, without at least 18 months solid experience of building business processes, you are going to be making rookie mistakes with no one on hand to help you learn the error of yours ways. A big part of my business is re-writing pap written by inexperienced hacks.
So the cost of the training, and then the technical debt they will rack up from day 1 is considerably large. This means that someone has consciously made this decision. This in my mind means they are mental, and the project is on a collision course.
So I concur this would be a nightmare gig, and if they come around in a few weeks looking to warm things up again I will probably price myself out.
What is it with modern companies that they make such bizarre decisions? Would you get this in any other profession?
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