From extended to Benched

[fatJock]

All was going well with extension in the bag then IT Projects canned in preference of supporting customers BAU work as volumes increase due to Coronavirus (I work in Logistics).

Current gig finishes on Friday, here's to seeing what if anything is out there for an IT PM.

Anyone else had similar?

[BR14]

no

[fatJock]

no

Succinct as ever

[GhostofTarbera]

All was going well with extension in the bag then IT Projects canned in preference of supporting customers BAU work as volumes increase due to Coronavirus (I work in Logistics).

Current gig finishes on Friday, here's to seeing what if anything is out there for an IT PM.

Anyone else had similar?

About 100000 other IT pM’s


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[fatJock]

About 100000 other IT pM’s


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That’s balls fella - 100K PMs have gone from being extended to benched in a week?

Thankfully got some interest already from some pimps.

Forum is becoming a joke, this isn’t General.

[LondonManc]

That’s balls fella - 100K PMs have gone from being extended to benched in a week?

Thankfully got some interest already from some pimps.

Forum is becoming a joke, this isn’t General.

Correct. At least BR14 was factually accurate.

We've had a few threads on here recently about the massive drop off in PM jobs - a lot of places seem to be converting to agile (or their best stab at it - they have a Jira board and stand ups but it's really waterfall with no plan and shedloads of post it notes) and look for SME BAs or scrum masters and product owners. Good luck.

[GhostofTarbera]

That’s balls fella - 100K PMs have gone from being extended to benched in a week?

Thankfully got some interest already from some pimps.

Forum is becoming a joke, this isn’t General.

My figures are accurate, not in a week, but over the last 2 years, every single IT PM I know (including myself) is now warming the bench / changed job to agile bollocks or retired


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[mogga71]

My figures are accurate, not in a week, but over the last 2 years, every single IT PM I know (including myself) is now warming the bench / changed job to agile bollocks or retired

This is so true. In the new agile and devops worlds (2 different things) , the Pod or team seems to now consist of a bunch of devs who do absolutely everything...... in our place it's got to the stage whereby we write the stories, estimate them, do the work, test the work (in all of its guises) raise the many CR's to get them released to Prod, support the systems during the day and night and weekend. We don't even have BA's in our Pod. They are reducing in numbers along with the PM's.

[Paralytic]

Correct. At least BR14 was factually accurate.

We've had a few threads on here recently about the massive drop off in PM jobs - a lot of places seem to be converting to agile (or their best stab at it - they have a Jira board and stand ups but it's really waterfall with no plan and shedloads of post it notes) and look for SME BAs or scrum masters and product owners. Good luck.

This. Get yourself some agile certification (there are some great deals for on-site training at present!) and change your CV to rebrand yourself as an Agile PM.

[ShandyDrinker]

This. Get yourself some agile certification (there are some great deals for on-site training at present!) and change your CV to rebrand yourself as an Agile PM.

^^ This.

The amount of ex PMs, Developers or BAs I've seen jumping on the Agile bandwagon over the last 5 years is amazing. The majority of organisations pursue fake agile.