ProgrammerHumor
easyToBillThem
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Work: hey, we need to send you out for training to be a scrum master, it's very important our seniors cross train in this
Work 2 weeks later: ah fuck it, we're just gonna have our PMs continue doing all the scrummaster stuff
Lol something similar happened to me company paid for like 30 people to take a project management type cert acted like we should know how to do this stuff and like 3 months later after I busted my butt to complete the course and get the cert no one has mentioned it again. O well life moves on. This is part of why I don't understand our company pushing to just stack certs. If it's not useful or we aren't going to be needing it why make me waste my time. Atleast they pay for them.
Do they contract out work? Because they can probably bill for project managers if you have the cert for it (we put 5 developers and a scrum master on this project, even though the scrum master is not doing any scrum mastering)
And that probably means they can bill one of the devs as a project manager, at a higher rate, for the whole project, not just a little bit of an existing PM's time.
Whenever businesses do weird stuff like this, the answer is nearly always:
- Inflating bills to customers
- A tax writeoff
- Needed something to show an auditor
Is that Christopher from The Sopranos?
It is
Karate. Lotta money in that shit
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