I am wearing my Equal Experts hoodie. Often I’ll be found on conference calls with my EE t-shirts, and I even have some socks. So the irony of writing an article about “leaving the badge on the door” is not lost on me. So what do I mean? Contracting Scum I am a contractor. I have been for the best part of 20 years. I’ve worked in a variety of sectors (telecomms, finance, government) in a variety of roles (development, architecture, security) using a variety of methodologies (waterfall - eurgh, faux agile - double eurgh - and lowercase agile).