Comments on: HOWTO: Manage a contractor http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/12/02/howto-manage-a-contractor/ i secretly code in visual basic Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:12:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: tyler http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/12/02/howto-manage-a-contractor/#comment-24909 tyler Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:59:29 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/12/02/howto-manage-a-contractor/#comment-24909 Agreed. 20 +/- years as a contractor and I've experienced too many of the things you suggest a client not do. I'm going to be handing the url to your blog entry to future new clients as a primer... thanks for taking the time to write it out well. Oh, one proposed edit: "bug base" should probably read "bug database"; I knew what you meant, but potential clients might not. A post on what a specification should be and what it shouldn't be would be a good follow-up to this post, if you haven't done it already. One on what a good bug report contains (and doesn't contain) is another article that would work well linked off of this post. peace. Agreed. 20 +/- years as a contractor and I’ve experienced too many of the things you suggest a client not do. I’m going to be handing the url to your blog entry to future new clients as a primer… thanks for taking the time to write it out well.

Oh, one proposed edit: “bug base” should probably read “bug database”; I knew what you meant, but potential clients might not.

A post on what a specification should be and what it shouldn’t be would be a good follow-up to this post, if you haven’t done it already.

One on what a good bug report contains (and doesn’t contain) is another article that would work well linked off of this post.

peace.

]]> By: Dave Batton http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/12/02/howto-manage-a-contractor/#comment-1114 Dave Batton Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:32:28 +0000 http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2006/12/02/howto-manage-a-contractor/#comment-1114 Great post! I've been an independent contractor for about 15 years now, and it's always comforting when I'm reminded that others have similar problems with clients. Thanks! Great post! I’ve been an independent contractor for about 15 years now, and it’s always comforting when I’m reminded that others have similar problems with clients. Thanks!

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