[Sigia-l] is it just me, or is it really hard to find IAs

[Donna Maurer]

I described this yesterday to someone as a bell curve. I do a little work with the team 
at the beginning of a project, gradually increase, do the bulk where my skills lie and 
gradually decrease. This can keep me involved throughout the project, picking up all 
the detailed background as things start, and provide enough time for 
continuity/changes/maintaining direction as the project wraps up - actually that can be 
quite a long tail.

Maybe this is the model you could approach when talking to freelancers, rather than a 
start-work-deliver model. It is a little harder for the freelancer to time-manage as the 
tails of the jobs will cross, but it can work out ;)

Donna

On 1 Apr 2005 at 11:37, Linda Kolar wrote:

> Perhaps I wasn't clear. We HAVE tried to get outsourced IAs in at the
> beginning of a project. We definitely DON'T think it is possible to
> just create a site map in a vacuum, so to speak. But what we've
> encountered with folks that have been doing freelance for awhile is an
> apparent lack of interest in parking themselves in our environment and
> getting involved the way the "in house" UEAs are involved. 
> 
> I don't know whether it's just the specific individuals we've
> encountered, or whether it's more a symptom of the freelance
> mentality, in which people may get in the habit of being on their own
> to complete a task, or even being the "one person shop" doing the
> initial strategy, the architecture and sometimes even design/coding.
> 
> In other words, I completely agree with you. I was trying to state
> exactly the same thing - that we've never been able to find a way to
> "compartmentalize" IA nor do we believe it should be compartmentalized
> - but added that the folks who were only interested in contract work
> (as opposed to contract-to-hire) seemed to like to treat their role
> that way (as a segmented element in the process).
> 
> - Linda
> 
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