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📅 April 1, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Learning New Tech Skills On The Job

An IT career demands that we include learning new tech skills as part of our regular routine. This requirement often leads to a lot of time spent on career development. However, there are ways…

📅 March 29, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

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

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 be asked…

📅 March 27, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Best Practices For Travel and Related Expenses

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 may send…

📅 March 26, 2019 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Performance Tuning Tips and Tricks for Any Code

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 dig into…

📅 March 25, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Consulting Intangibles – Building Relationships

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 stay busy…

📅 March 22, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 March 20, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 2 minutes read

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…

📅 March 19, 2019 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Personal Project Management – Small Scale, Big Value

I have met more than a few developers that see project management as an unnecessary overhead for software development. On the one hand, I have experiences where PM was done wrong and slowed down…

📅 March 18, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 2 minutes read

Project Deliverables, Quality, Guidelines and Best Practices

Sooner or later, every developer is asked for project deliverables. This may be source code, binary files, or full-blown documents. No matter which of these is required, the best approach is to make sure these…

📅 March 15, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…