At some point, your IT department may need to work with outside IT consultants. You may bring in a few developers to augment your staff. Or you might be managing or interacting with an entire team brought in to outsource a function. In either case, the following tips from TechRepublic Premium will help you keep the project on track.

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3: Make sure they document their work

I hope you don’t wish your consultants would step in front of a bus. However, if something does happen, you need to be able to continue their work. Have they left clear instructions about how the system operates and updates about the status of the project? Losing a consultant is enough of a change. Having to search for documentation is a duty you don’t want to have.

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