Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SmartBear blog. Go check out the original here, at their site. Stick around and check out some of the other authors and posts over there if you’re so inclined. When the winds of change blow through the programming world, they don’t necessarily hit everyone with equal…
A few posts ago, I proposed a taxonomy for software consultants. My reasoning for doing so was that I wanted to attempt a bit of clarification. As software has taken over the world, “consultant” is no longer singlehandedly up to the challenge of describing everyone working in software not associated with any particular domain. So…
Usually I fly home from client sites late in the day, but the whims of fate had me driving home instead, early (for me, anyway) this morning. The end result was a pocket of uncommon free time this evening, before resuming long days and seemingly non-stop travel on the morrow. Naturally, I wasted this free time poking…
Mostly, I try to stay away from semantic quibbling and I almost always try to stay away from anything sensational, so please forgive me in advance. I’m taking a hard line of sorts with a blog post entitled, “stop geeking out.” and I’m somewhat doing so for effect. But this is coming from a place of…
The conversation that follows this paragraph is a dramatization. But it’s a composite of actual conversations that I’ve held, distilled and focused. And I think it will illustrate why I believe we need a taxonomy of software consultants. “What do you do?” “Oh, I’m a software consultant.” “Oh, nice. So, what, you like, go out…
