Consultancy Per Project vs General Consultancy Services

[malvolio]

I agree in part.

Serious question: how would you protect against IR35 if a client asked you to provide mentoring services for say 3 months to their project management team? The reason I ask is that anything project specific seems to be easy to cover. Anything else, not so. Another example may be support analysis services.

Well let's think about that a sec. I know...

1. How do you do it? What parameters do you apply to judge what needs changing
2. When do you do it. When you decide it's necessary - based on your criteria (which may include data gathering from the client of course) - or when they tell you to?
3. Where do you do it?
4. What metrics and methodologies do you use to make improvements or measure progress?

Any more...?

D&C, MOO, RoS and the greatest of these is D&C. Good consultants are not under Direction and Control, else why are they consultants?