I recently received an interesting set of questions about software projects from a French science journalist. I thought my readers would lik...

Randolph's Tough Question Randolph is one of the sharpest technical consultants in my network. Until yesterday, I'd have bet a hundr...

The last two times I've tried to clip an interesting web page, Amplify has failed me. Most recently: http://tinyurl.com/2f98zku So, go...

One of my colleagues recently wrote about her difficulty in landing consulting assignments. She has some great unique models, but, as she sa...

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Inspired by Ajay Balamurugadas's blog at http://enjoytesting.blogspot.com/2010/08/aware-of-other-side-of-your-application.html The title...

It's been ten wonderful years, folks, and we're still at it, still filling up, still helping with careers. And lives. Amplify’d from...

Blogger Jon Jagger describes himself as a self employed software consultant-mentor-trainer-programmer etc specializing in agile software dev...

Wolfram Arnold writes: Here are the points I've transcribed from the meeting today. At some point I lost count as to which one was odd a...

At last week's BizConf, I ran a session based on an idea from Dwayne Phillips, where a bunch of independent businesspeople brainstormed ...

(Rhonda asks Jerry for a little consultation.) RHONDA: I'm a little nervous about my "speech" at a conference in a couple of w...

Jerry: Here's another email consulting dialogue that Larry found helpful. Larry: My name is Larry. I am a software test manager at an in...

Some Italian professors have tried to simulate the famous Peter Principle: "All new members in a hierarchical organization climb the hi...

In these days when money is short, lots of people cannot afford to participate all the conferences they might have attended last year. Money...

Reader June Kim recently wrote: On p.328 of Volume 4 of your Quality Software Management series, the first line goes: "Here's anoth...

One of the challenges of a blog on consulting is the difficulty of showing what actual consulting looks like. From time to time, though, I r...

Did you ever notice how many consultants have back problems? I do, from too much time in miserable seats on airplane, working on my computer...

If you want to have a successful business, you have to pay attention to customer feedback. In the case of eMarketing, that feedback can be f...

It's been about a month since I opened my eNovel store. After a snappy first two weeks, activity slowed to zero, and I thought nobody wo...

I've decided it's past time for me to join the electronic age. Five years ago, I gave myself the assignment of spending five years l...