I'm 68 1/2 years old and they're telling me that as an engineer (phony baloney title) I will be required to be certified in cloud technology next year. Agile is also the big silver bullet management has endorsed. Anyone with 15 years or more experience recognizes the pieces of Agile from the old days. The pieces have been packaged and a front end affixed so some self-proclaimed company of 'experts' (?) can sell their training services and certifications. ADHD managers grasping for the non-existent silver bullet solutions to the company's problems. And so it goes.
I don't trust any company that would make me a corporate vice president!
Yeah, twenty years younger here so I've not seen it as much as you but I find IT to be very cyclical. Move stuff out of house for "savings", bring it back in when the outsiders start charging the real costs after the initial contract. Some new manager comes in and it starts all over again etc.
I had recently been part of an agileish team for the better part of a decade, they were brilliant developers who knew their stuff pretty well. Coded well put together systems that hardly needed my touch as a sysadmin. Their only downside was the usual dev prevalence of trying new tech on every project whether it needed it or not. A pain in the arse for viewing system logs as each one was different.
Funny thing is corp are stating that the whole org is now an agile corp after years of resisting from high up but the business have been liking it for a long while. When done well the agile take works well. Gradually giving people what they need rather than suddenly dropping an entierely new application.
"The pieces have been packaged and a front end affixed so some self-proclaimed company of 'experts' (?) can sell their training services and certifications. "
Oh it's all a grift, but then all IT certification has been all along.
I've been rejected from jobs I've got actuall experience in as I don't have X certification. Bwahaha your loss tosser and probably a good sign I did not want to actually work there.
"I don't trust any company that would make me a corporate vice president!"
Yep, had a company 20 years ago insisting I needed to add going into managment as a career goal, I asked them if they had ever managed "engineers" much. Yeah I hate the engineer title too but also hate that my current org has me listed as a Senior Advisor, Configuration and Access Management. I've no idea what that means and neither does my boss. I do what I do and get paid for it, as the saying goes, they pretend to pay me, I pretend to work.
