| Tip 18 | Automate Yourself into a Job |
A constant theme of my career has been the conflict between IT management’s desire to engage low-cost (often offshore) consulting companies to do project work and my strong belief that the cheapest developer doesn’t usually lead to the lowest cost. I’ve had many a fiery conversation with an IT director or vice president, passionately arguing to hire a few really strong developers instead of a legion of low-cost, low-skill coders.
Unfortunately, I’ve often been shut down midargument. The problem with my position isn’t that I’m wrong (obviously!). It’s that there’s no easy way to prove that I’m right. And, from a cost perspective, the only hard evidence we have leads to the conclusion that a lower per-hour ...
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