Wille Faler’s Buzzword Bingo

.well, maybe not quite, and I definitely hope I’m not that destructive.
But there is just something to the beginning of a contract.. I find the first few weeks of a contract by far the most enjoyable: there is a certain rush to beginning something new, having to hit the ground running, pick up the understanding of a whole new business environment, where its technology stands and what you are expected to do about it.
It is usually a time when I live for work: I get up extra early in the morning to get to the office, and I stay late enough to only have time for dinner and a quick run in the evening before it is time for what little beauty sleep I can get.
Maybe what makes it so special is that there is nothing routine about it, you have a fresh perspective and fresh ideas, you’re not one of the “incumbents” stuck in old ways or consensus thinking.

Personally I think that a good contractor should provide the most value to an organization within the first 60 working days, after that there tends to be a diminishing return to the extra money an external consultant costs, you start to become “just” an extra pair of hands (albeit hopefully a skilled pair of hands..).