Questions 1-4 are basic stuff that appear in every contract and where deliverables are defined. More important are what does the free lancer expect from his/her client - i.e. resources, time. And more importantly how are schedule delays handled?
Many organizations today are cutting corners trading quality and productivity for cost. The resulting overhead in project management, risk management and damage control is not worth it.
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Familiarity with a given industry should not be a precondition. what should be judged is how the freelancer quirks in the work. because even if the work done is in a similar industry, no two companies work the same. so what should judged the adaptability / versatility of the freelancer
One of the greatest benefits that a freelancer can bring is "new blood". Specifically, a wide experience base and the ability to "black box" systems.
In other words, by looking for freelancers with similar industry experience you are losing the synergy than comes from multiple companies in multiple areas doing the same thing in different ways. It's hard to find best practices by yourself.
Glen Ford
IS Project Management, Business Sytems Analysis
In other words, by looking for freelancers with similar industry experience you are losing the synergy than comes from multiple companies in multiple areas doing the same thing in different ways. It's hard to find best practices by yourself.
Glen Ford
IS Project Management, Business Sytems Analysis
One of the greatest benefits that a freelancer can bring is "new blood". Specifically, a wide experience base and the ability to "black box" systems.
In other words, by looking for freelancers with similar industry experience you are losing the synergy than comes from multiple companies in multiple areas doing the same thing in different ways. It's hard to find best practices by yourself.
Glen Ford
IS Project Management, Business Sytems Analysis
In other words, by looking for freelancers with similar industry experience you are losing the synergy than comes from multiple companies in multiple areas doing the same thing in different ways. It's hard to find best practices by yourself.
Glen Ford
IS Project Management, Business Sytems Analysis
Sorry for the duplicate - the system seems to be sending erroneous "failed post" messages.
Glen Ford
Glen Ford
All five questions seem gear for someone that has never done either project management. If so, that person should not be even given the task of evaluating an outsourcing decision.
I was expecting more in depth questions such as how to ask tough questions to make sure all the promise dates and predicted resources are really in sync with reality. Project manager often get sold with over aggressive dates and under required resources.
Joseph Lau
I was expecting more in depth questions such as how to ask tough questions to make sure all the promise dates and predicted resources are really in sync with reality. Project manager often get sold with over aggressive dates and under required resources.
Joseph Lau
Good points, but, not all of us code for a living, some of us are technical writers, and even more of us are implementors/support/deployment agents etc. This whole article is geared towards coders, so perhaps a tighter "title" would have been better.
I'll second that. There are freelancers in all areas including Methodology Implementation, Project Management, Business Analysis, Systems/Database/Applications Design, Coding, QA, Documentation and Hardware support. (Which if my SDLC is half-decent means that there are freelancers in all functions -- including Departmental Management and administration (they wouldn't fit)).
I would suggest that the article needs to be a little more general. Or failing that, the title needs to be more representative of the subject matter - hiring freelance coders.
Glen Ford
Can Da Software
IS Project Management, Business Systems Analysis
I would suggest that the article needs to be a little more general. Or failing that, the title needs to be more representative of the subject matter - hiring freelance coders.
Glen Ford
Can Da Software
IS Project Management, Business Systems Analysis
I agree with Viveka that this is basic stuff. Having a checklist for hiring contract help may be a good premise for an article, but this info is just common sense.
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