On Aug 21, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
We discussed this phenomenon last night at the WO NoVA group.
Consulting companies almost always get paid by the man-hour. If a
project can be done in 1/10th the time with WO as it can be with
another tech it is actually a disincentive for the consulting
company to recommend WO because they'll make 1/10th the money off
the project. That's their flawed perspective.
Or they might consider WO to the their competitive advantage.
"might" being the key word there. Anything is possible. Likely?
It is a conflict of interest for an external company to define what
the best technology is for a job that they are going to develop.
Period.
I don't know that I would agree with that. I'd not want to hire an
external company to develop something and then mandate they use a
technology that they are unfamiliar with.
I don't mean they won't pick the right thing, just that you can't
assume that your best interests are what the consulting company is
looking out for. The question to ask is: what does the consulting firm
_think_ is in their best interest? Is it in conflict with yours?
It is in the consulting companies best interest to bill as many
hours as possible without getting sued. How they go about that is
very rarely also in the best interest of the customer.
If the consulting company views their best interest as keeping the
customer happy and getting additional projects going forward, then
it is far more likely that the tech that they choose will be the
best for the customer as well. This is exceedingly rare.
We exist. I do, I really do.
I knew I should have put a little "Present company excluded"
disclaimer in there... :-)
Sorry to sound so bleak, but I'd say that a majority of WO projects
out there are in-house projects where a working application with a
minimal amount of development time is really in _everyone's_ best
interests.
That is probably true, but there are consulting companies out there
(I can think of several) that make a significant portion of their
money on WO work.
I don't doubt they are out there. Finding them can be a trick, and
then they are usually really busy with happy customers. :-)
Dave
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