Assessing Professional Services Maturity
Finding a professional services partner gets you only halfway home. It's vitally important that the firm do quality work on your project. Without rehashing all the things that can go wrong when an incompetent firm works on a project, it's obvious that an incompetent firm is worse than no firm at all.
Assessing a professional services firm is critical before beginning work.
Assessing open-source–focused professional services firms can be tricky. They don't have brand-name awareness like the largest firms, so you might have to overcome some internal misgivings during the assessment phase. Just as you might be a bit uncomfortable purchasing a product from a manufacturer you're not familiar with, you might ...
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