Cracking the Domino consulting pinata with no stick
Tags :Rant
As this blog approaches 2 years running, attending
my ninth Lotusphere and reading countless blogs, I am finding out rather
quickly that things just aren't what they used to be in Domino work. Things
have changed greatly the past four years.
Just why is Chris thinking this right now
many of you ask. Well, let me explain. Recently I have watched
some smaller companies that consult go *poof*, others struggle to keep
clients coming in the door and even some that live project to project.
Then I came across an article written in 2000 about moving from the
enterprise in Domino into your own consulting practice. It was a
small
3 part
series. Now let's keep in mind that date.
As I moved along I decided to toss out
a general Google search on Domino Consulting. This of course revealed
over 500,000 hits. Now the catch was most of these were older documents
or people that had not updated in a few years. This just follows
my idea that people doing actual Domino consulting freelance are not as
prevalent right now as they were four to five years ago due to the lack
of these types of jobs. Yes, yes, you can get a job in Domino, even
more often recently. I am talking short-term consulting only.
So before we return to some technical issues,
what does everyone think of the current state of Domino as a short-term
consultant? Not as an enterprise employee, but from the eyes of the
one to two person shop that comes in to do work for those enterprises on
a short term contract basis.
If all this didn't make sense, too bad
:-). I was just thinking and typing as I went along.
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On Wednesday, January 5th, 2005 by Chris Miller
