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The contract manager I work for has been trying to fill an empty contractor seat for six months. One of the requirements is a CSSLP cert (as well as a Secret clearance and Security+ cert).
He searched Linked-In for "CSSLP", and of the 10's of thousands of IT people in Linked in, only 48 had the CSSLP cert, and NONE of them are developers. The reason I have to get the cert is because my job title is "senior developer". They're going to try to ammend the contract so that my position is titled "developer", but requiring the same skill set.
All of this means taht I won't have to get a CSSLP cert (if they can ammend the contract).
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#realJSOP wrote: title is "senior developer". They're going to try to ammend the contract so that my position is titled "developer"
so you become younger too! bonus!
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Hmmm. In my experience, "Developer" gets paid well below "Senior Developer" ... 
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There wioll be no pay cut for me.
With the skill set they require for the position, the title doesn't really mean squat. I gave the contract manager a list of required skills, and he asked me to rate them on a scale of 1 to 10.
I said, "10."
He asked, "Which one?"
I responded, "All of them".
He followed that up with, "Can you give these skills to me in order of importance?"
I said, "Put them in alphabetical order, backawards, or in numeric order regarding how many smaller words you can get out of them."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I won't have to get a CSSLP cert
Given how fast the usually Govt works, you may get the cert and be retired by the time any contract amending takes place. 
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The process is moving amazingly fast. The need to fill the seat is apparently overriding the sluggish pace of government contract changes.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I love it when reality buts heads with bureaucracy, reality almost always wins. I used to have to do the anti money laundering tests every year until I resigned rather than waste my time on them, that was 5 years before I quit.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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#realJSOP wrote: The process is moving amazingly fast.
Oboy. I have a horrible feeling that you really shouldn't have said that.
I hope you touched wood or crossed yourself when you did.
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Congrats, now we know the secret of your success !
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Why in holy hell would non-developers have CSSLP? SCRUM masters or some other such fluff?
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
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Why would developers have to get CSSLP? It's a management cert.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Eh, insofar as a Senior Dev is management I suppose. A management structure that not only sets the schedule for the SDLC, but also defines how you operate at each stage (as a non-Developer) sounds like the very definition of hell.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
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#realJSOP wrote: CSSLP cert
Crushingly Shockingly Staggeringly Ludicrously Pointless cert?
AKA every cert in existence. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional
(it's a management cert, not a dev cert)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I always thought that Secure Software Life Cycle had to do with how long the software can provide a secure cash flow good enough that you don't have to fix it. Did I get that wrong?
Seriously, John... Having tried for decades (that I know about) to teach the DoD and their youngsters how to make software that is functional, robust and maintainable, mostly without much success, isn't it about time to leave the fate of the Free World to the next generation? I quit a few years ago, and tonight I'm sitting in a delightful hotel in So. Dakota - having already enjoyed a delicious rib eye dinner - preparing to visit the local shooting club in the morning with a bunch of online friends who enjoy a day of shooting with others who have read and understand a certain document that defines the country in which we live. It doesn't get much better than that! 
I truly hope that you get all the changes to come together, and that what you're doing continues to be fun. But when it's no longer fun, run. You've earned that, and they need you far more than you need them. Good luck with the contract changes - truly! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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The DoD's handles software projects pretty badly. I don't even know where to start with describing the problems.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I remember - 1978, General Dynamics, GDBASIC, HP RTE III, MX21xx minicomputers. It never got any better, though it got a lot more expensive over the years. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Can any salad be a Caesar Salad, if you stab it enough times?
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If you use Brutus dressing!
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Did you post this the right forum? As Nero I can tell, this Marcus et tu brute a posting to be KSS.
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dunno, couldn't give a toss.
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A dish to die for!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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not sure I would die for a salad,
vegetables aren't real food anyway.
these days with more mouths to feed and less land to grow stuff need to economise,
get more value from each meal, so:
1. feed the salad to a cow
2. eat the cow
-> 1 salad fed 2, and both got a proper meal. (cows are herbivores so salad is fine for it.)
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Plus, "you are what you eat" - which means that steak counts as a salad, and as one of your "five a day". 
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