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📅 March 22, 2019

Explicit and Implicit Project Deliverables

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. Some common implicit project deliverables include documentation, test scripts,…

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📅 March 20, 2019

Deliverable Packaging and Creating a Customer Experience.

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 concept may be confusing, but it is not…

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📅 March 15, 2019

Communicating Progress and Status – Consulting Tips

No matter how good you are at your job, sooner or later communicating status will be required. A helpful hint is to avoid waiting until this becomes a requirement. Instead, get in the habit of regularly reporting your progress and status…

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📅 March 13, 2019

Your Code Repository and Ownership of Source – Consulting Tips

A software consultant brings intellectual tools with them as well as applications. This capital comes in the form of experience and also the more concrete source code. That includes anything you take advantage of in your personal code repository. Although…

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📅 March 11, 2019

Developer Tools and Licenses as a Consultant (or Employee)

One of the common aspects of consulting that is missed is clarity about developer tools and licenses. In particular, this obstacle is natural to overlook when you are used to being an employee. The challenge is not just being able…

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📅 March 8, 2019

Consulting Project Enhancements and Follow-Ups

The completion of a project is not necessarily the end of a customer relationship. To the contrary, consulting project enhancements are a common way to keep that relationship alive. When that fails, a follow-up project also has a higher likelihood of…

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