Any advice/thoughts on the following situation please?
Right I've been in my current role for 10+ years
I was hired as software developer working in the Microsoft suite of technology's
Now my company seems to be making a clear decision to purchase a packaged product. They've said so far they expect roles for everybody.
Personally I can't see that considering the size of the team and what I think will be required in the future.
No problems with that but I can't see a future here for me here as there's no chance of development (career or software) in the next few years. These roles which they expect to be there will be specialist product configuration tweakers with maybe a 10% Dev role using Groovy (subset of Java). Not what I was hired for and not what I want to do. This product and Groovy are pretty niche things and I don't want to be dumped by the company with an out of date/useless skill set. They have and will dump staff with statutory at the drop of a hat, they've done it plenty of times most recently just a year ago.
I've been asking my boss for training all year and getting knocked back every time 'Not now', 'now's not the right time' etc each time I've asked for training it's been for project type stuff (Scrum/Agile) or Microsoft development courses to keep my skills up to date. Development tools move on quickly and you need to keep up to date on these things. The training that I've been asking for are completely applicable to here and now and for the next 2 years until we've migrated across to this new product.
just to paint a little picture of my boss, he's a very tight with budgets always has been especially with training. He's a developer in a management role and is frankly an awful manager.
The job markets not to strong at the moment and especially this time of year. I'm resigned the the fact that I'll be moving on but that might be a good few months time as I not going to jump at the first job, I don't luckily need to, so I'll take my time and move for the right one.
I've got my PDP today, what sort of a leg to I stand on to try and force them to give me some training to keep my skills up to date?
How honest do you think I should be in my PDP about my thoughts/plans?
apologies for the length of post and if you've stuck with it thus far thanks
