IT Consultant

Archive: 08-2012

• How to identify and target a profitable IT consulting niche

  Charge more than burger-flipping rates for your IT consulting work by specializing. Read tips on how finding and evaluating a niche market.

  Posted by Greg Miliates | August 31, 2012, 9:10 AM PDT

• Agile strategic planning and innovation at Pandora

  Internet radio service Pandora’s CTO and VP Tom Conrad describes how the company’s agile strategic planning process diverged from the traditional, annual, all-hands product planning...

  Posted by Rick Freedman | August 29, 2012, 1:51 PM PDT

• Want to be an IT consultant? The grass isn't greener

  Before you switch gears and follow your dream of being a full-time independent tech consultant, try to align your expectations with reality.

  Posted by Chip Camden | August 22, 2012, 7:51 PM PDT

• Steps consultants should take before hiring corporate IT pros

  Erik Eckel shares three tips that will help ensure corporate IT pros your tech consulting firm interviews are hired for roles in which they will succeed.

  Posted by Erik Eckel | August 20, 2012, 9:33 PM PDT

• The softer side of Agile: Leading collaborative teams to success

  Feedback, communication, and motivation are key factors in three Agile Manifesto principles that lend themselves to successful project team collaboration.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | August 16, 2012, 2:38 PM PDT

• Dealing with mindless consulting tasks

  How well do your consulting engagements make use of your intellect? Answer this poll question, and read tips on getting boring tasks out of the way quickly and avoiding procrastination.

  Posted by Chip Camden | August 15, 2012, 8:19 PM PDT

• Create a project issue log in Trello

  Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards and cards. Andrew Makar describes how to create a project issue log in this innovative PM tool.

  Posted by Andrew Makar | August 14, 2012, 9:10 AM PDT

• Microsoft Project scheduling for free with Gantter

  Andrew Makar gives Gantter, a free project management collaboration tool described as a web-based Microsoft Project, a big thumbs up. Find out why.

  Posted by Andrew Makar | August 8, 2012, 9:57 AM PDT

• When clients are people too

  Client relationships are not zero-sum propositions. Chip Camden explores the elements of developing friendships with your clients.

  Posted by Chip Camden | August 7, 2012, 10:32 AM PDT

• The connection between Agile estimation and roadmap development

  When the Agile development mindset runs head-on into the traditional methods of project planning and budgeting, here are three things you can do.

  Posted by Rick Freedman | August 1, 2012, 8:37 AM PDT