Blog Entries tagged 'project management'

SEO Puts $31,752 Additional Profit in Man's Pocket

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:00:00 +0100

At least. Which is a pretty good piece of pocket money. I suspect even Warren Buffet would slow down to pick that up.

I attribute this to SEO because even thought it was a change in business process coupled with good SEO that made it happen it could not have happened without SEO.

Fair warning to people looking for "advanced" techniques - they ain't here. [...]

Fire Fighting

Don — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:00:00 +0100

Seth Godin had an interesting article, Managing Urgencies. Here's one of many money quotes:

The problem, of course, is that most organizations are on fire, most of the time....Add up enough urgencies and you don't get a fire, you get a career. A career putting out fires never leads to the goal you had in mind all along.

Several years ago on [...]

From Consulting to Product

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:00:00 +0100

So you're rocking along, doing some pretty good dollar consulting, and you build a small product, internal use only, to help you get your fixed price projects done more quickly. And now you're really pulling in some bucks.

Disaster Strikes

A junior consultant you just hired from Compsci-U gets drunk at TGIF with the client and spills the beans about y [...]

Why System Migrations are Utter Crapola

admin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

You would think that with 120+ years of experience we'd do a better job at the inflection point - where you start moving test into restricted production.

Or, based on personal experience, you wouldn't.

Well, I did.

Let me count the problems:

Blog disaster - posts lost, URL's not found, etcTemplate dysfunction - widget A breaks, but widget B breaks on A fixDNS error - that one was my fault and I don't want to talk about itCheck-in-Dilbertiasim - like it was [...]