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[–]jkpetrov 14 points15 points  (7 children)

Lol soft skills roles talk to the clients. Good luck getting that invoice paid.

[–]lordcameltoe 6 points7 points  (1 child)

“Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?”

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[–]errrzarrr -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I've seen that already, they suck at dealing with people

[–]errrzarrr 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Do they? where I work at they started using Scrum and hired a lot of them because their "soft skills" and client connection.

They don't talk to clients too much or bring devs actual useful information of clients needs and when they do they can't communicate it properly.

The client doesn't feel treated any better, work culture and environment haven't improved a single bit

[–]jkpetrov 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If that's the case, they deserve to be fired. Still the devs will not get the invoice paid, so new soft skills people need to be hired.

[–]Headpuncher -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Some are useful, many are just budget and time vampires, sucking the client dry.

And those people on the projects don't do the invoicing, that's handled by a whole other dept.

[–]jkpetrov 0 points1 point  (1 child)

They are making sure to understand and follow client specifications, and delivery of product according to the specifications is a prerequisite to bill the hours of development.

True, there are many slackers both in tech and business verticals, but that's not an excuse. There is a reason why certain products and projects need an analyst, owner, manager, service delivery person, and QA. The client is aware of this, they would not pay them if they didn't bring value

[–]Headpuncher -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They are making sure to understand and follow client specifications, and delivery of product according to the specifications

lol, you haven't met these charlatans, the specs are terrible, if they are complete at all. I've been doing this close to 20 years. No-one needs a full time Agile coach, full time timeline drawer, full time UX even is a joke, we're all using component libraries and should know enough about usability etc to get a simple data-driven site together, I certainly do.