Comments on: Choosing a Made2Manage Consultant http://www.made2mentor.com/2008/12/choosing-a-made2manage-consultant/ Data Warehousing, Microsoft Business Intelligence, and Other Cool Stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Just_a_reader http://www.made2mentor.com/2008/12/choosing-a-made2manage-consultant/comment-page-1/#comment-711 Just_a_reader Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:21:33 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=968#comment-711 Here's an additional point. If you hire a M2M consultant, make sure the expectations are clear as to the results you are wanting. Make sure it's in an email or document so that there is no communciation breakdown on what they are to accomplish. This way you set the expectation that you are holding them accountable from the beginning. If they don't get the job done in the time frame they quoted, then you should ALWAYS negotiate a new price. In M2M Technical Consulting for example, if they come onsite to look at your server to address corruption or performance issues and they don't find the cause and fix it, then normally you only pay consultant expenses for the trip, airfare and food, hotel but the fee they charge per day is waived. This type of practice is normally with all M2M consultants, although they don't advertise it. Here’s an additional point. If you hire a M2M consultant, make sure the expectations are clear as to the results you are wanting. Make sure it’s in an email or document so that there is no communciation breakdown on what they are to accomplish. This way you set the expectation that you are holding them accountable from the beginning.

If they don’t get the job done in the time frame they quoted, then you should ALWAYS negotiate a new price.

In M2M Technical Consulting for example, if they come onsite to look at your server to address corruption or performance issues and they don’t find the cause and fix it, then normally you only pay consultant expenses for the trip, airfare and food, hotel but the fee they charge per day is waived. This type of practice is normally with all M2M consultants, although they don’t advertise it.

]]> By: Scott http://www.made2mentor.com/2008/12/choosing-a-made2manage-consultant/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Scott Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:49:21 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=968#comment-399 The only thing I think you missed was refrences. It's great to see finished examples of thier work but I would be almost as interested in talking with thier past employers. A finished project does not tell you how long it took, how much it cost, or what headaches were involved in creating it. The only thing I think you missed was refrences. It’s great to see finished examples of thier work but I would be almost as interested in talking with thier past employers. A finished project does not tell you how long it took, how much it cost, or what headaches were involved in creating it.

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