Reply to: Impressing the client?

[DaveB]

and shiny shoes

"As my father always said, "Shiny clean boots and a spanking short
haircut and you can cope with anything." He said that just before that
rather unfortunate suicide business. Hmmm. " - Arnold Rimmer

[DeadKenny]

You all forgot:

1. Dress one level above most of your colleagues.

In software that's not hard

2. Have good hair.

Damn. So is a trip to Tony & Guy something you can stick on expenses

[Lucy]

You have your moments.

[Bagpuss]

Well, it is a little bit like real life.

If you are kind and helpful, that is generally what you get back.

I'm probably the most helpful person on here, but that's not hard.

[Ardesco]

I find that giving my scales a good polish helps too...

Are you sure it's not the big toothy smile you give them as you leave ?

[Lucy]

Well, it is a little bit like real life.

If you are kind and helpful, that is generally what you get back.

[Bagpuss]

Pot ....kettle .....

This is a bulletin board not real life, maybe to you it is?

[sasguru]

People skills go a long way these days, as so few people have them (a bit like manners).

Pot ....kettle .....

[Bagpuss]

Make sure the client actually likes you. Offer conversation, appear interested in what they have to say. People skills go a long way these days, as so few people have them (a bit like manners).

[Ardesco]

2. Have good hair.

Arg, thats me scuppered then.....

My hair does messy or strange....

[To BI or not to BI?]

You all forgot:

1. Dress one level above most of your colleagues.
2. Have good hair.

and shiny shoes

[bobhope]

You all forgot:

1. Dress one level above most of your colleagues.
2. Have good hair.

[Ardesco]

The presumes they have a decent test department (or a test department at all!). Shocking, but there are companies out there who really do awful jobs of testing.

Hence why I added "or your testers are utter tulipe" in brackets

[DeadKenny]

Disagree,

there are lots of ways to find out if work is good. If the work written by a contractor flies through testing with no problems it is good and the management know because they finish ahead of schedule.

If it is tulipe it gets bogged down in testing with hundreds of iterations as all the bugs are exposed and will generally be late.

If you deliver good work that flies through testing you know that you are good (or the testers are utter tulipe )

The presumes they have a decent test department (or a test department at all!). Shocking, but there are companies out there who really do awful jobs of testing.

[DodgyAgent]

What's the best way to make sure you get a renewal?

Is doing a good job enough?

Surely, most project managers - particularly in software dev. - don't really have the time to find out if work is good or not, and many wouldn't understand anyway.

So how does a contractor make sure the client values them when the quality of the work often counts for so little.

William Knight
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Make sure your agent is getting a nice earner from the deal, everything helps!