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Cracking the Domino consulting pinata with no stick


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As this blog approaches 2 years running, attending my ninth Lotusphere and reading countless blogs, I am finding out rather quickly that things just aren't what they used to be in Domino work.  Things have changed greatly the past four years.

Just why is Chris thinking this right now many of you ask.  Well, let me explain.  Recently I have watched some smaller companies that consult go *poof*, others struggle to keep clients coming in the door and even some that live project to project.  Then I came across an article written in 2000 about moving from the enterprise in Domino into your own consulting practice.  It was a small 3 part series.  Now let's keep in mind that date.

As I moved along I decided to toss out a general Google search on Domino Consulting. This of course revealed over 500,000 hits.  Now the catch was most of these were older documents or people that had not updated in a few years.  This just follows my idea that people doing actual Domino consulting freelance are not as prevalent right now as they were four to five years ago due to the lack of these types of jobs.  Yes, yes, you can get a job in Domino, even more often recently.  I am talking short-term consulting only.

So before we return to some technical issues, what does everyone think of the current state of Domino as a short-term consultant?  Not as an enterprise employee, but from the eyes of the one to two person shop that comes in to do work for those enterprises on a short term contract basis.

If all this didn't make sense, too bad :-).  I was just thinking and typing as I went along.