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10/22/09
10:44:31 pm by david2, Categories: General, 149 words Are you a contractor or a consultant
http://jessewarden.com/2009/10/flex-consulting-chronicles-1-you-are-not-a-contractor.html#more-1807
A contractor writes code for another company. A consultant does more than just write code; she does the typical consulting process:
1. Listen to the client’s problems
2. interview project members by asking questions
3. investigating project requirements, design documents, code base, and project tracking records
4. write up a plan that contains a set of solutions to the client’s problems, and present it
5. implement the plan
Consultants can be contractors; they can be called upon to be team augmentation, or the team itself to build the software, hired specifically for their software development & leadership skills. While contractors can work for both big and small companies, consultants typically work for only large/Enterprise companies. This is because the large problems that require a consultant’s skills are found in larger companies, and in turn they are capable of affording the consultant’s rate.
A contractor writes code for another company. A consultant does more than just write code; she does the typical consulting process:
1. Listen to the client’s problems
2. interview project members by asking questions
3. investigating project requirements, design documents, code base, and project tracking records
4. write up a plan that contains a set of solutions to the client’s problems, and present it
5. implement the plan
Consultants can be contractors; they can be called upon to be team augmentation, or the team itself to build the software, hired specifically for their software development & leadership skills. While contractors can work for both big and small companies, consultants typically work for only large/Enterprise companies. This is because the large problems that require a consultant’s skills are found in larger companies, and in turn they are capable of affording the consultant’s rate.
