Jimmy May, aspiring geek and part time editor in chief for www.PracticeThis.com tagged me for Things You Know Now . The idea behind all this is sharing the lessons learned at  hard knock school of life. Or in other words it is about what would I do differently if I had...

    Have you been involved with Application Lifecycle Management consulting? Have you helped to build solid Release Management process? If so I need your insights. I started my research with a quick search and I have stumbled on the following article that perfectly matched my online search...

      This is what Gerald M. Weinberg writes in his book Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully . The book is full of great advices to consultants like myself and to those who hire consultants.  Weinberg discusses many other topics spiced with...

      Security reviews are a respected methodology.  People know about them, and probably use them semi-regularly. Ask anyone if security reviews are important, and they would all say yes.  Ask them if they do it regularly, and most would say no. Related Materials Three...

    As part of my quest to become a better consultant I am reading Gerald M. Weinberg's book Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully . It is quite controversial and provocative book. At the same time Weinberg shares real world practices that help folks...

      Good consultant is a leader. If not, why hire one anyway? I was reading Gerald M. Weinberg's book Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach . This is good book that helps you build technical (and beyond) leadership skills. Good consultant paves the path...

      After I've read Kenneth H. Blanchard's book Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service I fell in love with the author. The next book on my list from Blanchard was The One Minute Manager .  It was less entertaining than "Raving Fans..." book but...

"If you swim with sharks, do not act like food" - I can crystal clearly remember that quote by Michio Kaku when he was giving a keynote during internal MS convention. It resonated with me a lot. As a consultant, I often find myself deep in the waters surrounded by sharks. Sometimes frightened to death...

      I was reading The Practice of Leadership blog that briefly reviewed Steven Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People . I like Steven Covey's approach. In fact, I massively use Steven's Urgent/Important quadrants to prioritize my daily work (as outlined here - Prioritize...

     I Consultant. As part of my personal growth quest I constantly challenge myself wether consulting is my career path. These are the questions I ask myself: Do you like solving engineering problems in the field? Do you like meeting lots of different people? Do you like to be exposed...