Hire a Business Central contractor for a defined piece of work
A Business Central contractor is one experienced consultant or developer you hire for a defined piece of work, such as a module rollout, an upgrade or a backlog of changes. It is the role a freelance consultant often fills. The contractor joins your team for the engagement and works under your direction. We supply that person from our own consulting staff.
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When should you hire a Business Central contractor?
Hire a contractor when a project needs one more skilled person for a set period. For example, a rollout to a new group company may need a second functional consultant. An upgrade from NAV needs a developer to convert customizations to AL. A key team member may resign in the middle of a project. As a result, the schedule cannot wait for a long recruitment.
In each case, the organization already has a plan and someone running it. What is missing is a pair of skilled hands. That is the difference from a full consulting engagement. There, the outside firm also brings the method and answers for the outcome. Here, you keep responsibility for direction.
Tell us the gap →
- ✓Extra entity to roll out
- ✓Developer needed for an upgrade
- ✓Departure in mid-project
- ✓Backlog of change requests
- ✓Peak load at cutover
Skills a Business Central contractor from us brings
We place people by discipline. Functional consultants cover finance, supply chain, warehousing, manufacturing or projects. They configure, test and train in their area. Technical consultants write AL extensions and build API integrations. They also create report layouts and handle data migration. In addition, most have worked on both new implementations and live systems.
Before anyone starts, we match the person to the task. Your project lead joins that call and can ask about comparable work. Sometimes the need spans two disciplines. Then we say so and suggest how to split it. After all, a single person stretched across unfamiliar ground helps no one.
Interview a candidate consultant →- ✓Finance configuration
- ✓Supply chain and warehouse
- ✓Manufacturing setup
- ✓AL development
- ✓Migration and integrations
How our contractor fits into your way of working
Our contractor works to your plan and your tools. The consultant joins your stand-ups and takes tasks from your board. Code goes into your repository under your branching rules. Time goes against your work items. Your project manager sets priorities. Ours stays in the background for support.
Access follows your policies. You issue the accounts. These are usually a delegated administrator or a named user in your sandbox and development environments. You can withdraw them at any moment. All work is remote, during US business hours. That suits teams spread over several time zones.
Explain your team setup →- ✓Task board and meetings
- ✓Source control rules
- ✓Coding and naming standards
- ✓Access and security policy
- ✓Time recording
Contract capacity for Dynamics partners
Other consulting firms also come to us. A partner with a full order book may need a developer for one client's extension. It may need a functional consultant for a module its own people rarely implement. We work under the partner's name where that is preferred. The client relationship stays with the partner.
Discretion is part of the deal. We do not approach a partner's customers. We hand over documentation in the partner's format. For a smaller partner, this can decide whether to accept a project. It also lets a partner offer a fuller service without hiring permanently.
Discuss partner capacity →- ✓Work under your brand
- ✓Client relationship stays yours
- ✓Skills you lack in-house
- ✓Documentation in your format
- ✓Capacity for busy periods
Ending a Business Central contractor contract without losing knowledge
Temporary help only adds value if what the person learned stays when they leave. From the start, the consultant writes as they go. Setup decisions go in your wiki. Comments and readme files travel with the code. Notes cover anything left unfinished. In short, nothing important stays only in memory.
In the closing stretch, there is a handover session with whoever takes the work on. We can record it if you wish. The consultant is part of our firm, not an individual who disappears to another client. So you can return with a question later and reach someone who has access to the notes.
Plan the handover early →- ✓Decisions written in your wiki
- ✓Commented, committed code
- ✓List of unfinished items
- ✓Recorded handover session
- ✓A contact for later questions
Business Central contractor questions
Is a Business Central contractor employed by you or independent?
The people we place are our own consulting staff. You contract with our firm. That means one agreement and one invoice. A colleague can step in if the assigned person becomes unavailable.
Who manages the contractor day to day?
You do. Your project lead assigns tasks and sets priorities. That is the main difference from our consulting engagements. There we manage the delivery and answer for the result. We remain available to your lead if questions about the arrangement arise.
Can the contractor meet us in person?
Work runs by video call and screen share from our office in Phoenix, Arizona, in US business hours and scheduled in your time zone. Business Central online runs in a browser, so this suits most tasks. For an in-person meeting, contact us to arrange one.
Can a Business Central contractor role become a wider engagement?
Yes. Sometimes the need grows beyond added capacity. Say you want us to own a workstream. Then we can agree a consulting scope. We raise it openly instead of letting the role expand unnoticed.
How is this different from staff augmentation?
The two overlap. Staff augmentation usually describes adding several people for a longer stretch as an extension of your department. A contractor is typically one specialist for one defined need. Our staff augmentation page covers the broader arrangement.
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