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Hit me up for tips if you're thinking of going contract. I've been in and out of the game for years and making more than double than I would as a perm.

I've got several clients that pay over 500k/year to a SaaS ERP vendor. The ERP system is the very definition of enterprise software.

What would you suggest I advise my clients when it comes to their finance, inventory, order management, logistics etc?

I guess they could piece together various SaaS solutions to create some sort of composable microservice based system to meet their needs but that's a massive engineering overhead when they can just get all of the functionality they need on one big fat enterprise ERP system.

The cosmetics manufacturer I work with does not care about what the technologists (people like you and me) care about. They just want to run their manufacturing and wholesale operation and if Oracle are offering one system that does it all, why wouldn't they take that deal?

You’re torturing your family, wrapping them in a small bubble of a fantasy world.

This extreme level of religious living is outright child abuse.

The Japanese mafia also give out charity to get people inside. Putin used to drive around rural regions handing out cash too.

The Japanese mafia also give out charity to get people onside. Putin used to drive around rural regions handing out cash too.

In the UK, Jehovas witnesses come round to your house after the death of a loved one and they give you all kinds of nice messages and charity.

Growing a religion (or a movement) through bribery is an ancient practice.

My point was, it's not hard to seal an opened cork bottle

How? Where?

Why use quotation marks for something I didn't say? Nothing I've said means "fuck the clients" unless you are maliciously taking the worst possible interpretation.

A change that takes a massive amount of time and effort isn't something I should do for free.

I'm more than happy to build a backlog, refine it, and build until there's a RC... so few enterprise clients want to subscribe to the perceived risk, they'd rather spend months specifying everything upfront to make some senior person happy whether that delivery methodology has been proven to work or not.

Many large companies absolutely refuse agile delivery and require fixed scope and cost to get anything done.

But yes, you did some law work and they want you to charge hourly rather than based on value.

If my SAP implementation is going to save over 1 million per year in increased manufacturing efficiency, how should I price my services? The floor is set by the cheapest contractors in my market, the ceiling is how ever high I can negotiate.

The client will capture far more value than me over the lifetime of the product. I also don’t want to charge by the hour because there’s a conflict of interest and I want to detach hours worked from fees charged otherwise I’m just slaving away.

Hourly is for blue collar work, it’s not professional at my and your level.

How do clients get screwed with fixed fee? Clients should pay for value, not hours sat in a chair.