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Small Startup
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Your technical staff is doing what needs to be done in a startup and also the
long hours. They don't have the time to waste with a tough Perl
problem. Having a Perl expert available who can help keep the work from
stopping is valuable in many ways.
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Technical Specialty (e.g. Biotech)
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Your staff has its strength in a technical specialty in a field such as
biotech. Purl is commonly used but no one is really a Perl expert. The
work gets done but you know it could be better and probably more
importantly, faster. I can help out with working with the staff and
creating easy ways to improve the quality of the code base and of future
work. This will let the staff focus more of their energy on their
specialty and less on Perl techniques.
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Large IT Shop
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You're a large corporation with many development groups. Perl is not the
primary language used but it is used in many places around the
enterprise. Each group probably can't afford to hire a Perl expert just
for their amount of work. But across the whole company there is enough
Perl work to make this a smart budget decision. If the cost is spread
across all the divisions, it would be a small amount for each but they
get a high RIO. Any developer who is using Perl can have access to a
Perl expert, regardless of his group or division. This is what I did at
Fidelity Investments in 2004. My work as a Perl expert was part of a
central technical services group for the entire company.
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Perl Guru on Staff
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You're lucky to have a Perl Guru on your staff. But usually s/he will
be already busy with development projects to spend much time helping
out others with their Perl. Also they may have not have the experience
needed to do such things as code review, integrated training and other
support services. Perl on Call is meant to help your staff with those
services and thus keeping your guru free to focus on your company
projects.
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