RE: Growing your own programmers

You have a valid point.  But I never saw a contract programmer work on the
day to day trouble shooting and minor program modifications that in-house
programmers work on, (unless they wrote the stuff in the first place).  They
are usually given some project.  Also the contract programmers I have met
and worked with have many years of experience in programming and business
and/or are an expert on "Packaged" software.  Yes they are an asset or
should I say a resource.  Just my humble opinion.

Christopher K. Bipes            mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst          mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.                http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive           Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park  CA  94928         Fax: 707 586-1884



-----Original Message-----
From: OleBlighty [mailto:oleblighty@home.com]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 4:07 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Growing your own programmers


"It still takes 3-6 month for an experienced programmer to become productive
and years to become an ASSET."

Surely that can't be true.  If it were true, there would be no contract
work.  Just my opinion.
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