Re: Programmers VS Consultants

[Lori Hainey <lhainey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marie,
We act as a member of the I.S. team for many of our clients and it works very
well. We have a primary contact at our development center for the primary 
contact
at the client site. We can provide multiple levels of staff depending on the
specific need of each request and by doing so can save the client considerable
dollars.  I think this would be difficult with a really large consulting firm 
due
to turnover and numerous personnel that may be involved. Also, as a firm becomes
very large it would be difficult for the firm as a whole to give special
attention to each client - this would fall on the shoulders of each individual
consultant. I used to work for a very large consulting firm and I feel a much
more "personal touch" to a firm of our size. We have 12 employees and service 15
clients currently. Some clients are on a full-time service level others are as
needed. We have no turnover in our employees in the 5 years we have been
operating. This has been seen as a real benefit to our clients.

"Graziano, Marie" wrote:

> Are there any companies where the programmers play a consultant role rather
> than a programming role.
>
> What  Pros and Cons are there?  These consultants would be directed by the
> individual company areas and report to a manager for resource management.
>
> Has anyone done this?  And if so, how can a manager keep  the
> Consultant/Programmers as a team?
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