Word matching agency methods. . .are they letting the industry down?

[Antman]

Thanks for the link, it was interesting reading. It does back up what you say about having about being specific in the contract, so no complaints there.

Myself I'll keep asking for IR35 friendly contracts & schedules but I think that the biggest factor that will stop me being investigated is that I won't spend 7 years at one client as JLJ did.

[Old Greg]

Late to the thread but a couple of apparently relevant points:

(a) I'm a generalist. Since I design and/or deliver complete business solutions I have to be able to talk to users, techies, coders, PMs, management and people who actually know what they're doing. However...

(b) I'm there to do one job, in the current case to be a Service Architect. I'm more than capable of running their whole IT team, delivering their ISO2000-1 accreditation, doing bid management and a host of high level technical jobs, but I don't since that's not what I'm contracted to do. More than happy to do those things, but I want another schedule and maybe a talk about rates first.

If you haven't learned that yet, it's damned well time you did.

Also late to thread.

I am a specialist in an industry but generalist in my disciplines.

I operate as a PM or BA or business change expert, and I work on anything from a burning platform system replacement to a complex organisational change project with no IT component. I occasionally go from one discipline to another with a single client (and like Mal renegotiate rates if I can).