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Clearly staff augmentation has different tasks than expert consulting. How do you signal which you want/do?
by kasey_junk 8y ago
Clearly staff augmentation has different tasks than expert consulting. How do you signal which you want/do?
- tptacek 8y agoConsultancies take staff-aug projects (and also sometimes turn them down). It's part of the dealflow. The easiest way to signal that you don't want a staff-aug gig is to say "no" when you're offered a staff-aug gig. Advanced: counterpropose with a project proposal. People overthink this stuff, I think. The one important thing to know is that it's important to be "available"; even if you're not going to pick up the staff-aug gigs, it's probably best to entertain them (and, even more advanced: refer them out to other people), because you can only say "no" 1-2 times before people will stop asking you for anything. I don't believe "expert consulting", as apart from "freelancing" or "contracting", is a real thing in our industry.
- playing_colours 8y agoCan you please elaborate on "I don't believe "expert consulting", as apart from "freelancing" or "contracting", is a real thing in our industry."? Many in this topic wrote about being a real consultant rather then a contractor in software industry. By that they mean, as I see, providing advice, recommendation to clients. I know you are very experienced in this area, so you mean one cannot be a pure consultant in software?