Maari Casey over at uncompany<\/a> had a recent LinkedIn post about planning for freelancers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She made some good points, but I think skipped one, and it’s not just relevant for freelancers. Even well before an organization might need extra work – be it freelance or employee – companies need to have a plan for onboarding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As an independent developer, more than half of the projects I’ve come in to have many initial delays because of basic stuff – network access (or physical premises access years ago!), services access (wherever your data files are you want folks to work on\/with).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve worked (both freelance and w2) with orgs where it’s a breeze – I’m up and functioning and able to “get to work” in less than a day – sometimes just a couple hours. And I’ve worked with some where it takes *days* of waiting, coordinating with various groups (none of whom know who you are). If you’re paying for my time during that period, it’s a waste of your money. If I’m not allowed to bill you while waiting, it’s a waste of my time (and… money or time I could be spending elsewhere).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This doesn’t just apply to software developers. Having a process to bring people in to your organization to get work done is vital to getting the best from all parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maari Casey over at uncompany had a recent LinkedIn post about planning for freelancers. She made some good points, but I think skipped one, and it’s not just relevant for freelancers. Even well before an organization might need extra work – be it freelance or employee – companies need to have a plan for onboarding….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimsal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}