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You can do all of this and earn a high salary if you become an... ...agile coach Read a few books, recycle stuff you find online, do a presentation on neurodi

You can do all of this and earn a high salary if you become an... ...agile coach Read a few books, recycle stuff you find online, do a presentation on neurodiversity. It really is money for old rope. I knew of one who worked in a UK gov department who got £1250 a day, charged for 5 days, and only turned up for 4.5. Did it for years.

headmelted 6y ago
Agile coaching is it. It's literally money for nothing. I'm not an Agile coach, but have seen enough to know that it really is nonsense snake oil that large organisations will pay incredible sums of money for. I sort of wonder if the negative real value of the Agile industry means the price is effectively limitless, given that the whole thing is a Fugazi so the bill is whatever the buyer is foolish enough to pay.
- sjg007 6y ago
  Well, it's a transformative process that not many orgs can implement.. that's basically it. Another is a JIRA consultant. You basically setup JIRA and teach an org how to use it.
  - redisman 6y ago
    > Another is a JIRA consultant. You basically setup JIRA and teach an org how to use it. What about the alcoholism to cope with what you've wrought on the poor souls?
michaelt 6y ago
But that's all synchronous work - running courses, giving presentations, coaching people. If their objective is to only work 2 hours a day, the last thing they want is hours of meetings every day where your absence will be immediately noticed.
- shatnersbassoon 6y ago
  If the organisation is big enough and dysfunctional enough, your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time. Just make sure whenever you are seen you have the appearance of being in a huge rush.
  - lmueongoqx 6y ago
    >your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time Be still my heart
  - radiator 6y ago
    There was a well-written story about someone in a large company who was by some coincidence suddenly left without duties and went on for years doing exactly that. But I no longer remember the source or whether it was a fictional story.
    - realaether 6y ago
      Could it be the [Forgotten Employee: The American Dream](https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/)? > After 30 days, I became convinced that I was a forgotten, non digestible entity in the corporate stomach. No man ever comes over to ask me for anything - although I am but a Manager, and Directors roam the hallways like rabid hyenas, I am much too senior to all of them for them to attempt an attack. Every once in a while, the phone will ring, and an old acquantance will ask for help solving a problem - I gladly comply. Sometimes, I let the phone ring... but the voicemail light never comes on. They move on to the next target, under the false assumption that I am much too busy to be bothered.

headmelted 6y ago

Agile coaching is it. It's literally money for nothing. I'm not an Agile coach, but have seen enough to know that it really is nonsense snake oil that large organisations will pay incredible sums of money for. I sort of wonder if the negative real value of the Agile industry means the price is effectively limitless, given that the whole thing is a Fugazi so the bill is whatever the buyer is foolish enough to pay.

sjg007 6y ago
Well, it's a transformative process that not many orgs can implement.. that's basically it. Another is a JIRA consultant. You basically setup JIRA and teach an org how to use it.
- redisman 6y ago
  > Another is a JIRA consultant. You basically setup JIRA and teach an org how to use it. What about the alcoholism to cope with what you've wrought on the poor souls?

michaelt 6y ago

But that's all synchronous work - running courses, giving presentations, coaching people. If their objective is to only work 2 hours a day, the last thing they want is hours of meetings every day where your absence will be immediately noticed.

shatnersbassoon 6y ago
If the organisation is big enough and dysfunctional enough, your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time. Just make sure whenever you are seen you have the appearance of being in a huge rush.
- lmueongoqx 6y ago
  >your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time Be still my heart
- radiator 6y ago
  There was a well-written story about someone in a large company who was by some coincidence suddenly left without duties and went on for years doing exactly that. But I no longer remember the source or whether it was a fictional story.
  - realaether 6y ago
    Could it be the [Forgotten Employee: The American Dream](https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/)? > After 30 days, I became convinced that I was a forgotten, non digestible entity in the corporate stomach. No man ever comes over to ask me for anything - although I am but a Manager, and Directors roam the hallways like rabid hyenas, I am much too senior to all of them for them to attempt an attack. Every once in a while, the phone will ring, and an old acquantance will ask for help solving a problem - I gladly comply. Sometimes, I let the phone ring... but the voicemail light never comes on. They move on to the next target, under the false assumption that I am much too busy to be bothered.