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Sounds glamorous; isn’t. | Sounds glamorous; isn’t. | ||
Firstly, “lead” in this context means “a thing you tie a misbehaving dog to” and not “what Moses did to the Children of Israel”. A workstream lead is one engaged, on a [[Contractor|temporary]] basis, to prod unwilling employees along a manifestly pointless “business change” program whereby outwardly useful staff will be distracted from whatever they are doing and instructed to strip paint off a bucket, so the bucket can be given to another employee to paint properly, so a third one can strip paint from it again. And so on. | Firstly, “lead” in this context means “a thing you tie a misbehaving dog to” and not “what Moses did to the Children of Israel”. A workstream lead is one engaged, on a [[Contractor|temporary]] basis, to prod unwilling employees along a manifestly pointless “business change” program whereby outwardly useful staff will be distracted from whatever they are doing and instructed to strip paint off a [[bucket]], so the [[bucket]] can be given to another employee to paint properly, so a third one can strip paint from it again. And so on. | ||
Requires experience organising [[all-hands conference call]]s, walking through action logs and compiling [[dashboard]]s full of [[RAG status]]es. Until your contract runs out. | Requires experience organising [[all-hands conference call]]s, walking through action logs and compiling [[dashboard]]s full of [[RAG status]]es. Until your contract runs out. | ||
Revision as of 16:15, 19 November 2021
Sounds glamorous; isn’t.
Firstly, “lead” in this context means “a thing you tie a misbehaving dog to” and not “what Moses did to the Children of Israel”. A workstream lead is one engaged, on a temporary basis, to prod unwilling employees along a manifestly pointless “business change” program whereby outwardly useful staff will be distracted from whatever they are doing and instructed to strip paint off a bucket, so the bucket can be given to another employee to paint properly, so a third one can strip paint from it again. And so on.
Requires experience organising all-hands conference calls, walking through action logs and compiling dashboards full of RAG statuses. Until your contract runs out.