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📅 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…

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

Fixed or Hourly Project Pricing

One of the critical choices in accepting a project is whether you will bill based on a fixed or hourly basis. The bottom line is that one approach places more risk on you as…

📅 February 27, 2019 Tools We Use ⏱ 6 minutes read

DBVisualizer How To – Easy Database Administration and Usage

One of the tools in this series that I have used the most is DBVisualizer. It is a database tool for developers and those that need to browse their data. Although the uses are plentiful,…

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

Consulting Invoices and Getting Paid

Whether you are running a side hustle or a full-blown business, at some point you will need to create consulting invoices. Well, unless you do not care about being paid for your work. This…