When was the last time a technology consulting company had an Initial Public Offering (IPO)? Exactly. It rarely happens, and when it does, it is the exception, rather than the rule. However, back in the pre-dot-bomb era, you had these things all the time. Remember Scient, Viant, Sapient, MarchFirst, and a plethora of other companies [...]
A shorter version of the essay I wrote in The Nomadic Developer: Consultopia, is up on InformIT.com. Of all the things I wrote in my book, I think this essay was the most fun for me to write. It is not every day that I get to yell out to the world that mission statements [...]
My second InformIT article is now up, this one, focusing on some conversation starters you should be having with clients. There are a lot of things out there that are going to capture imagination, but I think these three that I allude to after the jump are particularly meaningful in this year of shrinking budgets [...]
Most of us understand the idea of, what here in the US, we like to call a lemon in the context of purchasing a car: A lemon is a defective car that is found to have numerous or severe defects not readily apparent before its purchase. Any vehicle with these issues can be termed a ‘lemon,’ and, by extension, any [...]
At ThoughtWorks, my role is technical, however, as do many ThoughtWorkers, I do work on things like proposals or business development opportunities from time to time, especially when between assignments. One thing you might be surprised about with ThoughtWorks is that the value proposition isn’t that “We are The Agile Company”. This makes sense if you think [...]
