Category Archives: consulting

Why I Work At ThoughtWorks (and why you should too…)

January 3, 2012 – 8:27 pm

Alas, we enter a new year, a time at which many people start thinking about opportunities. This was a place I found myself, three years ago today, when I made the decision that I wanted to work for ThoughtWorks. Three years, four countries, and several really great clients later, I still feel as good about [...]

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Hourly Rates Considered Harmful

October 12, 2011 – 4:34 pm

So here you are, on a project, and everything is going great. You are delivering value, your customer is happy, and all is well and right with the world. You are doing Agile – including the parts like pairing and TDD that lots of people pay lip service to but far fewer actually do. You [...]

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What Working at ThoughtWorks Has Taught Me About Consulting So Far

December 8, 2010 – 3:42 pm

In my book The Nomadic Developer, I spent an entire chapter covering techniques that allow you to thrive as a technology consultant.  Of course, I wrote that before I joined ThoughtWorks.  Since joining, I can certainly say that ThoughtWorks has given me quite an education about technology consulting.  This post explores some of the things [...]

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Why Many Technology Consultancies Will Never See $100M Revenue

December 20, 2009 – 6:42 pm

Consider two hypothetical technology consulting organizations.  One has 50 people and 10 million USD revenue, another has 500 people and 100 million USD revenue. Is one just a larger version of the other, with more geographic expansion? Obviously not.  There are many differences.  For one, it is harder to manage 500 people than 50.  The [...]

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