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CXO

What separates a good technical consultant from the pack?

It seems like anyone can hang out a consultant shingle, but not everyone can deliver. Here are the traits that make a consultant stand out from the crowd.

Project Management

IT consulting: The customer isn’t always right

When a customer is wrong, it can be difficult to get them to come around to your way of thinking. Robert L. Bogue explains why listening, teaching, and giving them time to process information can go a long way.

Data Management

Create better applications faster by eliminating incompatible design approaches

In our struggle to build large, complex applications we must work hard to find those things which do work well together and avoid those that don't. As development teams get larger it becomes harder and harder to keep a consistency of vision that keeps every developer focused on the same design approaches. See some examples of how design approaches can be incompatible and get some suggestions on how to build a common design approach.

Software

More effective requirements gathering with Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft's OneNote tool may be the perfect replacement for the standard pen and paper of requirements gathering in application development. With its ability to create outlines, add flags, and highlight, it is like Microsoft Word with enhancements. When you add in the ability to record audio and create screenshots you now have a platform that can change the way requirements are gathered.

CXO

Convert tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge to ensure better application development

Review the objective of gathering requirements (or elicitation, if you prefer an agile moniker), what makes it difficult, and what you can do about it. To do that, we need to examine: what tacit knowledge is, what explicit knowledge is, how to convert one to the other, and why you care.

Developer

Efficient development means knowing when to learn a new tool and when not to

In the IT world learning how to use tools and seeing the results of that learning isn't always so clear. This document walks you through a process for determining whether that new cool tool is actually a tool you can use.

Developer

Creating a common lexicon for software development in your organization

In this article, we'll explore the need for a common lexicon for your software development team and look at what you need to do to create it.

Social enterprise

Move beyond mere source control to the problems source control doesn’t solve

In this document, we explore the common problems that a source control system won't solve and talk about what you can do to make progress on these items so that your overall coordination of the project team will be easier and more productive.

Hardware

Not just a buzz word, virtualization technology can improve your app development

In this document you will learn some of the key ways that you can use virtualization technologies to improve your application development experience.

CXO

Get out of the information technology reactionary rut

This document explores what being proactive is when it comes to IT, why it's important, and how to get your group back on track when it strays.

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