I understand completely. As a consultant, we find ourselves commonly in the position of managing consultants or FTEs that fit your description. Create a form or list of questions for them to fill out. Normally for the kinds of issues that you are describing below, it is normally just 3 to 5 items that you need. Reject any requests that are incomplete. Then create a testing process to be followed. Alway find a way to include the non-consultant sponsor (normally their manager) in the process (normally by email). When the consultant understands that thier manager will have visibility, more thought goes into the process. On 'test results' create a grid for the result. Always include a place to include a color. In Excel, this would be a column that contains only Green, Yellow, or Red. This allows their manager to briefly glance at the test results to see the damage without having to absorb and understand all of the issues. Best of luck, Pete
________________________________ From: Anne Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/28/2004 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EDI-L] Dealing with less skilled EDI folks Hi Group, I wanted to get a quick response about how best to deal with contracted EDI folks who obviously either have not done much EDI or are not skilled at it but try to bluff their way through & send many tests through that are not even attempting to be close to the spec's or even pass X12 validation. I have asked several times to not have the person send me bad data, but to ask questions. When the questions come they are not specific like in what Segment. Any ideas to make this less painful for me? Thank You --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/OIFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> . Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Access the list online at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
