Opinion: Consulting vs Mentoring
I was interested to see our old buddy Pinal Dave recently post a link to one of another old buddy Brent Ozar’s posts from 2015:
What’s the difference between a contractor, and consultant, and FTE?
Brent defined consultants as giving advice on what the client should do; whereas contractors turn up and do what they’re told. This distinction is pretty clear and I agree with him.
I always thought that was a great post but I also always thought it misses one additional category: mentor.
2018-03-06