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📅 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…

📅 March 13, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 2 minutes read

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…

📅 March 11, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 March 8, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 2 minutes read

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…

📅 March 6, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Writing Proposals and Winning Projects

Once you find a prospect your next step is turning them into a customer. In the IT world (as well as most other lines of business) this is done through a proposal. Therefore, writing proposals is…

📅 March 4, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Finding Consulting Projects Without Cold Calls

The challenge of finding consulting projects is not one you should overlook. However, the first is the hardest. Once you have a couple of projects under your belt, you will find it easier to…