Although public sector contracts are pretty much a ticket to the bank, I somehow don't think I will ever do one again. Last Monday I finished my latest one and they faxed the timesheet through stating that 3 days were to be deducted, no reason given! After discussing this with the consultancy onsite, who also had no idea why, we eventually managed to get it down to only 1.5 days. I have my suspicions as the whole contract was very badly run and they're trying to put the blame on me, shame because I just threw it back at them and have basically been proven correct. I'll just have to bit the bullet and lose 12 hours of money.
I've now worked on 3 public sector contracts and it really doesn't surprise me that they go over budget and quite often tits-up. On this one they refused any project management help apart from one project which actually ran quite smoothly and although I'm not a fan of PM, this was an area that really needed it.
Now to decide which contract to take next. I have a number of options but its very difficult which one to go for but thats life
I've now worked on 3 public sector contracts and it really doesn't surprise me that they go over budget and quite often tits-up. On this one they refused any project management help apart from one project which actually ran quite smoothly and although I'm not a fan of PM, this was an area that really needed it.
Now to decide which contract to take next. I have a number of options but its very difficult which one to go for but thats life
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