The value of good advice

I'm a big fan of managing your projects in-house, where possible.

It's one of the best things you can do to grow your institutional knowledge of your systems, which is a huge value long term.

But of course it's not always possible.

Some projects just involve too much new and specialized knowledge that you don't have in-house.

So what to do?

Fortunately, it's not always a stark choice between doing everything yourself and outsourcing the entire project.

Hiring a technical advisor can be a great choice. In this arrangement, you still do all the hands-on work in-house, so you get the cost savings of using your own staff and the long-term benefit of retaining institutional knowledge.

What the advisor provides is a voice of experience, to ensure that your progress is not blocked by surprises and beginner mistake. That all of that in-house work you’re doing is built around ideas that will work. That your project is not a series of hit-or-miss trials and errors.

Here's the thing:

Even on the most complex and mission-critical projects, there are ways to divide the work, and still focus on building institutional knowledge along the way.

All the best,
A.