Born Hunter

Every man and his dog is going to agree with you. It's completely reasonable. But let's be honest, reason and alcohol don't really mix do they.

2 years and 400 pages, I'm sure something exciting will happen soon!

I can relate, just not to the generalisation. Like I said, stakeholder management and discipline is all there is to it. With experience you develop a sixth sense for those gaps, whether you're a PM or just work in a similar role in a project environment. Two minutes ago I just took a call on how acceptable it is for product battery life to significantly be reduced in freezing temps, 24 hrs before we commit 6 figures to manufacturing. That's entirely because, for this project, proper governance came way too late. I've seen no PM, waterfall, agile, bad PM and good PM. It's night and da

Yep that’s a project . I’m just used to good PMs really benefiting projects.

Not sure I'd really call that project management tbh. That sounds more a business as usual activity. What's the output? I mean a PM would do that as part of an actual project if there wasn't a dedicated team member to handle logistics but it's not exactly representing the value that a PM really brings to an organisation. Not that I'm a project manager but the best ones are experts at stakeholder management. I see it all of the time where directors/VPs are completely misaligned, team members too afraid to voice concerns over feasibility etc etc. Stakeholder management and discipline are al

I'll be honest, I've never worked with anyone on that sort of money except maybe the current or former C-suite professionals in the upper echelons of in multinationals that need 9+ digits to record their "EBITDA". Are you talking about just a really good Java/python etc dev's? Because one worth a million quid a year is mind boggling to me. What I would expect for that sort of money is someone with three decades of experience in SW, ranging from dev, system architecting, infrastructure, PM/PO/SM, data engineering/science, with a CV that has roles on like CTO at Spotify etc etc. How co

You’d have to have an extremely niche skill set with a very comprehensive portfolio to achieve that though. He’s beyond the 1%. For every one of your mate there’s 1000 wankers who will sit there with a completely straight face and say that a catastrophic bug that ground the system to a standstill within two days of release is my fault because it wasn’t defined in the acceptance criteria that it shouldn’t do that. AI coding tools can’t come fast enough!

I think it’s still quite normal for tradesmen to go self employed. But modern industry more widely has many specialist professions that aren’t so suited to being self employed. They’re a cog that needs a machine. I’ve worked at a tiny tech company, a huge one and something in between. For me personally I don’t get much satisfaction out of the day to day of a small firm. Everything is a bit of a blag and Mickey Mouse. Working at a big firm that has the resources to really be top tier can be fulfilling in a way Fred in his shed just can’t compete with.

Similar topic. Never saw ravens our way, moved to the southern end of the vale and there’s plenty here and apparently have been for ages. Weird how they haven’t spread though.

Simply a case of the population recovering and their geographic range expanding as a result. I live in the sticks and they turned up here about 5 years ago and are quite prevalent now. First time I ever saw them was 15 years ago while labouring on a site in Henley.

Technology moved on. The value of sites like this is just a place to have deeper discussions. In terms of entertainment the app based social media platforms have a way higher level of engagement. A huge volume and variety of content, millions of pictures and videos from all over the world. Pure ‘quick fixes’. And the effective ‘suggested posts/accounts’ features based on what you’re clicking on to keep users addicted.

They were being resupplied by plane, airport to airport without even needing aerial refuelling. You said game set and match which means a conclusive victory. It wasn’t at that point.

100% Yeah conquorer was the first big ‘f**k around and find out’ statement of the war. My comment regarding sitting it out was in reference to conquorer not being singly conclusive (game set and match). The occupation force wasn’t dependent on naval resupply so although a hugely impactful event there was much left to do.

The sinking of the Belgrano was a decisive and historic event. But without the equally as decisive actions of many other elements of the task force the war couldn’t have been won. The entire Argentine navy was eliminated with that sinking but the land forces were still being supplied by hercs and the air war was still active from mainland bases. If the harriers hadn’t completely outperformed what was expected from them, if 3 para hadn’t shown the grit and professionalism they had, if 40 Cdo hadn’t yomped when their rides didn’t turn up, if the Vulcans hadn’t put a big target on the m

Not much of f**k all has really changed in the past 12 months. Russia failed to achieve anything close to a successful invasion and Ukraine, with all the support the West dares to give, have failed to fully achieve the goals of their counteroffensive. Wasn't it six weeks it took the coalition to completely invade Iraq? This will continue now until both sides have had enough of the shit and stalemate and the new lines on the maps are accepted.