Summertime. The sun’s shining, the weather’s warm, and you’d rather be anywhere but sitting at your desk and working. During these summer months, it’s easy to be frustrated, and even a little bit irritable at work. To cope with your coworkers’ potential bad attitude, and to prevent yourself from presenting one, here’s a list of[…]
Thinking about looking for a new gig? Have a new gig? These life changes can be exciting, until you think about breaking the news to your current employer. How exactly do you go about that? How exactly do you go about telling your team that you’re leaving them? While it’s never easy, we’ve got some[…]
Say that you’ve got two different job offers in front of you – one for a full-time tech position, and the other for a tech consulting gig. Do you know which one to choose? It’s a difficult choice, but comparing the two types of gigs by both their financial benefits and implications is one way[…]
In any field, you want to be the best. The question, however, is how you become that. If you’re in sports, it may be that running those extra five miles a day gives you a competitive advantage. But what about technical consulting? How do you become a competitive contractor, someone who is one of the[…]
It’s Valentine’s Day. A day dedicated to relationships. A day where you make an extra special effort to put your best foot forward with your special someone. A day about making that relationship even better. So that’s why, today, we’re offering a relationship how-to guide. I know what you’re thinking, “How can a technical recruiting[…]
Traveling as a technical consultant. You either love it or hate it. For some, the idea of being in a new place for a couple of weeks is exciting. They live for it. For others? It’s the bane of their existence. They hate the packing, the traveling, the constantly being in a new place welpmagazine[…]
You’ve just realized that your project is failing. That it isn’t going to be on time or within budget. That you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. There’s that sinking feeling, and then the panic sets in. But, before you start breathing into a brown paper bag, take a second. It might not be[…]
There’s the right way to do something … and then there’s the wrong way. Unfortunately, measuring agile development is often approached in the latter method. Too many managers measure the development of an Agile project through lines of code produced or through team velocity without realizing that these measurements lead to negative consequences. In order[…]
Scope creep. It’s not some newfangled dance move (though you never know today). Instead, it’s something that’s all too familiar to many project managers. It’s when a project goes beyond its initial plan, taking on new functions and often looking nothing like its initial self. It’s more often than not scope creep that causes IT[…]
When we have candidates applying for their first technical consulting gig, they often question the viability of a career in technical consulting. They wonder whether or not they’ll be able to find another gig after the one they’ve been offered, and how it’s even possible to make a lifelong career of it. While we certainly[…]