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..<div>
<br></div><div>You need to be a fairly heavy hitter as a contractor, and it usually means the rates will be higher.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Priit Tamboom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:priit@gitlab.eu" target="_blank">priit@gitlab.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br><br>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? <br><br>Usually our team politely ignore those requests but occasionally we still stumble up here and there. <br>
<br>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!<br>
<br>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?<br><br>Puzzled,<br><br>Kind Regards,<br>Priit<br><br>[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.<br>
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