Update 03-How to Manage Consultants.md

[luigimartin]

Hi, this is a proposal to improve this chapter. Please consider to ask someone for a grammar review since I'm not english mothertongue (I'm Italian actually).

Let me know what do you think

best regards Martin

[braydie]

hey @luigimartin thanks so much for the pull request! I'm a little busy this weekend so it will be next week some time that I can get a chance to review your changes

[braydie]

Hey @luigimartin, I really like the bullet points you've made on getting the most out of consultants - I think this fits really well with the rest of the chapter.

I like the quote “Your professional reputation depends on consultants’ performance more than consultants’ careers depend on your feedback” - where does this come from? I think we'd need to cite it properly.

A couple of issues I do have, though:

• I'm not convinced on talking about consultants in the context of being part of a large company where 'you' are the tech lead -- I think consultants can come into any sized project or organisation, and 'managing' them, in the context of this chapter, is probably akin to 'working with' - would that be fair to say @RobertLRead?
• There are a couple of assumptions being made about consultants which I think could be interpreted wrongly, so to protect ourselves I think we'd probably reword them.

I'll make a pull request on your fork with some suggestions -- see what you think?

Thanks again for contributing :smile:

[braydie]

Also, as you are Italian, would you be interested in translating the guide into Italian?

[luigimartin]

hey @braydie , I'm really happy that you liked that quote because... it' not a quote :-) It's just something that once I would have said to a customer's cocky employee.

So, we can use it without quotation marks I suppose.

I'll wait for your pull request with your suggestion to eventually provide some feedback.

About the Italian translation, I don't think it would be an effort that is worth. The first advice that I would give to an Italian guy that want to be a good programmer is to learn some english!

[luigimartin]

Hello Braydie,

how are things?

Excuse me if this mail could sound weird, but.. did I answered to you the masseage below? About the fact that the quote was actually not a quote but from me? (I can't find any sent message in my mailbox)

Regards Martin

2016-05-06 11:00 GMT+02:00 Braydie Grove [email protected]:

Hey @luigimartin https://github.com/luigimartin, I really like the bullet points you've made on getting the most out of consultants - I think this fits really well with the rest of the chapter.

I like the quote “Your professional reputation depends on consultants’ performance more than consultants’ careers depend on your feedback” - where does this come from? I think we'd need to cite it properly.

A couple of issues I do have, though:

• I'm not convinced on talking about consultants in the context of being part of a large company where 'you' are the tech lead -- I think consultants can come into any sized project or organisation, and 'managing' them, in the context of this chapter, is probably akin to 'working with' - would that be fair to say @RobertLRead https://github.com/RobertLRead ?
• There are a couple of assumptions being made about consultants which I think could be interpreted wrongly, so to protect ourselves I think we'd probably reword them.

I'll make a pull request on your fork with some suggestions -- see what you think?

Thanks again for contributing [image: :smile:]

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[braydie]

Hey Luigi, yes you wrote the following regarding the quote:

I'm really happy that you liked that quote because... it' not a quote :-)

Apologies for not getting my PR to you - I'm still swamped with other stuff at the moment! I've not forgotten you though I promise!!