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Archive: 05-2012

• Applying agile concepts at HomeAway

  HomeAway’s VP of Engineering Jack Yang comments on how the company embraced agile and made it a core value, the real business advantage of agile thinking, and more.

  Posted by Rick Freedman | May 30, 2012, 8:32 AM PDT

• Obtaining referrals from your clients

  Chip Camden shares advice on asking clients for referrals, giving clients a referral incentive, and collecting electronic referrals via email or social network post.

  Posted by Chip Camden | May 28, 2012, 9:16 PM PDT

• Researching your first date with a potential services client

  Follow these five tips on how to make a great best first impression when you go into an initial meeting with a prospect.

  Posted by Ken Hardin | May 25, 2012, 1:56 PM PDT

• Deliverables: Reality and perception in client invoices

  Trust, honesty, and openness with your client are especially important when invoicing for a project that require days or weeks of attention before reaching a milestone.

  Posted by Chip Camden | May 23, 2012, 8:29 AM PDT

• Agile grows up and new challenges emerge

  The conversation shift from “why should we adopt agile?” to “how can we adapt to agile across the enterprise?” presents a new set of cultural and tactical challenges.

  Posted by Rick Freedman | May 22, 2012, 1:16 PM PDT

• Use VBA to highlight missing baseline finish dates in Microsoft Project 2010

  In part two of his series on using VBA in Microsoft Project 2010, Andrew Makar describes how to build a custom task field highlighting feature.

  Posted by Andrew Makar | May 16, 2012, 12:55 PM PDT

• Get started with Microsoft Project and Visual Basic programming

  Andrew Makar goes back to basics and offers simple VBA examples that you can apply to Microsoft Project schedules.

  Posted by Andrew Makar | May 14, 2012, 1:42 PM PDT

• The worst client of all

  Consultants, how do you deal with your IT needs? Do you schedule time for yourself, as if you were a client? Let us know in the discussion.

  Posted by Chip Camden | May 11, 2012, 7:44 AM PDT

• Download TechRepublic's Server Update and Patch Management Policy

  Consultants can better prepare clients for required server patch and upgrade maintenance operations by using this TechRepublic policy.

  Posted by Erik Eckel | May 11, 2012, 6:40 AM PDT

• Open letter to tech vendors: Stop circumventing IT consultants

  Tech vendors should focus on making quality products and offering good service rather than circumventing IT consultants in an attempt to increase the vendor’s revenue stream.

  Posted by Erik Eckel | May 4, 2012, 1:32 PM PDT