Freelance

[Fred Buechler]

In article <872 at acf5.NYU.EDU> sabbagh at acf5.UUCP () writes:
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>Better still:  WORK WITH THE CONTRACTOR to generate written specifications.
>This will increase your value to the contractor and make you more desirable,
>since most consultants are good at programming and lousy at systems analysis.
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>The best way to learn systems analysis is by experience.  Yourdon's books
>on the subject give a good introduction, but his "structured" analysis
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What makes you think that most consultants have not got the experience and
knowledge to do good systems analysis?  REAL consulatants, not some kid just
out of college or a summer hire (these people are really just contract coders),
are at times retained ONLY for the systems analysis and design phase of a
project.  Then the less experienced in-house programmers do all the coding. 

Fred Buechler
(A consulatant with 15 years experience in DP and consulting for 7 of 'em!)