Re: [SLUG] TCWO

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 18:10:39 EDT


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:57:09AM -0400, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:

<snip>

> You don't need a consultant to come in and be a wizard. You need a
> consultant to come in and help several of your people get familiar with
> the software you want to use. Then you will be able to do things for
> yourself, perhaps with a call or email now and then to a consultant or
> other source of advice (like this list) if you get stuck on a
> particular problem.

I used to be a business consultant many years ago. One thing I noticed
is that consultants don't work toward the product of "you don't need us
anymore". It's fairly obvious why. Instead, they work to keep you on the
hook forever. This is probably well known to _big_ businesses, but was
news to me in consulting little companies.

Paul

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