Comments on: When you outsource IT, stop paying them by the hour! http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/outsource-it/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:41:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Foster http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/outsource-it/#comment-19773 Mike Foster Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:16:13 +0000 http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/?p=386#comment-19773 A response from an IT professional: Another good feed, however, please don't push outsourcing to much. I need my job!! All is well here, everything is working great. It was a huge technical mess, but is now cleaned up. Your guidance was much appreciated! (Me, Mike, again below) Yes, I agree - I want all of you IT professionals to keep your jobs for sure! Just like a good cardiac surgeon brings in a brain surgeon when necessary, I realize you will outsource too. The flat fee arrangement helps ensure the project scope is clearly defined in the beginning and everyone is held more accountable. I use a flat fee when organizations hire me, and one of the organizations I visited since starting this thread is getting a huge bargain – I had no idea what a disaster their network was in! I will enjoy helping them move to IT usability at the fee I originally quoted. A response from an IT professional:

Another good feed, however, please don’t push outsourcing to much. I need my job!!

All is well here, everything is working great. It was a huge technical mess, but is now cleaned up. Your guidance was much appreciated!

(Me, Mike, again below)
Yes, I agree – I want all of you IT professionals to keep your jobs for sure! Just like a good cardiac surgeon brings in a brain surgeon when necessary, I realize you will outsource too. The flat fee arrangement helps ensure the project scope is clearly defined in the beginning and everyone is held more accountable.

I use a flat fee when organizations hire me, and one of the organizations I visited since starting this thread is getting a huge bargain – I had no idea what a disaster their network was in! I will enjoy helping them move to IT usability at the fee I originally quoted.

]]> By: Mike Foster http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/outsource-it/#comment-19772 Mike Foster Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:11:25 +0000 http://www.fosterinstitute.com/blog/?p=386#comment-19772 One person wrote in saying: Amen! We met when you did a presentation a couple years ago. We switched everything to flat fee in 2007. We've had 2 years of 40+% growth since then! One person wrote in saying:

Amen! We met when you did a presentation a couple years ago. We switched everything to flat fee in 2007. We’ve had 2 years of 40+% growth since then!

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