Software Consultants: Getting Your Money's Worth

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When planning to hire a software consultant, MIS managers often do not discuss their job expectations with the consultant and fail to psychologically prepare their staff and physically prepare a sufficient work area before the consultant arrives for work. As a result, both time and money are lost. This column provides a checklist of questions MIS managers should answer before hiring a software consultant and describes several tasks MIS managers should complete to properly prepare for a consultant's arrival.

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Diane Broyles

Diane Broyles has 20 years of DP experience as a prosrarnrner, svstems analyst. and software consultant. For the last five years, she has worked as an independent software consultant in Silicon Valley CA. Broyles recently joined Apple Computer in Cupertino CA as a senior business analyst.