>>And also remember the Whil Hentzen rule - it is better to turn down a client and be sorry than to take a client and be sorry.
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>I'm gathering you read his book on being a software consultant. That book ain't shabby. That is the only book I've ever read
>on being a consultant, and maybe the only book I'll ever need. I still use his "Functional Specs" method and his templates
>for engagements.. lol.
Actually haven't read the book, but Whil and I are contemporaries (okay, I guess I'm a little older) and by the time he'd written it we'd already had a lot of discussions on the subject and have always been pretty much on the same page - except he's probably more disciplined and businesslike than I am. (but then, most people are)
I found the most valuable thing for me was that my current consulting thing is about my fourth career, so by the time I started doing it I had a certain amount of experience in the world that had nothing to do with computers. {s}
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