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Author: Rob Broadhead

Rob is a founder of, and frequent contributor to, Develpreneur. This includes the Building Better Developers podcast. He is also a lifetime learner as a developer, designer, and manager of software solutions. Rob is the founder of RB Consulting and has managed to author a book about his family experiences and a few about becoming a better developer. In his free time, he stays busy raising five children (although they have grown into adults). When he has a chance to breathe, he is on the ice playing hockey to relax or working on his ballroom dance skills.

Playing Your Professional Role as An Employee or Consultant – Career Intangibles

March 29, 2019 • Lessons Learned From Consulting

We all have seen situations in our career where we are asked to play a role. The role is sometimes a broader one than we are used to. However, we can also…

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Best Practices For Travel and Related Expenses

March 27, 2019 • Lessons Learned From Consulting

A side hustle does not preclude travel. Thus, sooner or later you will face the question of how to handle travel and related expenses. You might not have to wait. Your employer…

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Performance Tuning Tips and Tricks for Any Code

March 26, 2019 • Become a Better Developer

One of the recurring tasks I see inside projects is performance tuning. The focus is on a database or queries at times but more often it is a code cleanup. We can…

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Consulting Intangibles – Building Relationships

March 25, 2019 • Lessons Learned From Consulting

An excellent measure of long-term success is how much your customers like you. Thus, building relationships are a critical part of your job. You may have the skills to be able to…

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Explicit and Implicit Project Deliverables

March 22, 2019 • Lessons Learned From Consulting

We have touched on the idea that there are explicit and implicit project deliverables in most cases. These may be due to our customer simplifying a solution or general prerequisites and best practices.…

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Deliverable Packaging and Creating a Customer Experience.

March 20, 2019 • Lessons Learned From Consulting

When we complete a project for a customer or employer, we give them a product. Thus, there is a form of deliverable packaging that we need to consider for that hand-off. This…

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