[LRUG] Who are those super short-term contractors?

[Richard Conroy]

It can work at the small scale - especially if the client has prepared a
lot (e.g. has a design in place, solid ideas about what they want) or there
are common patterns to what they are achieving - like a data backend for a
mobile app, getting their test or cuke coverage up or making a technology
transition (e.g. converting to LESS/CoffeeScript, erb -> haml) or spiking a
prototype..

You need to be a fairly heavy hitter as a contractor, and it usually means
the rates will be higher.

As agency work ... I don't see how it makes much sense at all, except as a
clear way of timeboxing the evaluation of a new contractor.


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Priit Tamboom <priit at gitlab.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> About super-short-term contracting[1], I haven't solved a puzzle about
> clients who are looking for super short-term, say 2-3 weeks custom
> development contractors. I mean seriously?
>
> Usually our team politely ignore those requests but occasionally we still
> stumble up here and there.
>
> Therefore I wonder who are those contractors who are willing to jump into
> a domain and hack there only for few weeks or even few days? It looks
> immensely wasteful for a developer to set up a new environment, learn all
> the project specific requirements, new work-flow tweaks, new people and new
> goals. Just for a few weeks, can't be productive!
>
> Do I missing the point? Are those short-term fanfare just for testing
> waters for both sides in order to commit into long term relation later on?
>
> Puzzled,
>
> Kind Regards,
> Priit
>
> [1] For background, our team mostly operates in Nord Europe region and we
> have requirement for at least 6 month contract before we decide invest into
> client and their goals seriously. So far this has yield best outcome for
> both sides.
>
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