Software Consulting

The ultimate do-it-now guide to getting started in managed services. Now includes chapters on cloud services, bundling, and more. Whether you're a new computer consultant or an experienced technician making the move to managed services, this is the perfect audiobook for you! The audiobook includes step-by-step instructions for creating service offerings, reformulating your business, creating service agreements, and more!

There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show listeners how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement.

Applying the dozens of lessons and practical advice will save you the time, energy, and cost of learning them the way I did—the long way and the hard way. Adopting these principles early in your business career will significantly improve your chances of success and move you ahead of your peers who are not as well informed.

Stop trading your elite technical intellect for corporate compliance. Eliminate the glass ceiling on your earnings, protect your professional autonomy, and build a high-yielding independent B2B practice. Most senior software engineers, database architects, and technical product managers face a silent crisis. They climb the corporate tech ladder only to find themselves trapped in the golden handcuff paradox—spending their weeks sitting through agonizing cross-departmental alignment loops, navigating reorg politics, and managing administrative compliance while their specialized technical ...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is not a revolutionary new technology. Instead, it is better to think of this as being a new way of organizing computer network functionality. SDN allows the network to be virtualized. That's where the real power of SDN comes from, and that's what we'll be exploring in this book.

Stop living at the mercy of the corporate direct deposit loop. De-risk your exit, eliminate household financial panic, and build an unbreachable liquidity citadel to fund your technical sovereignty. Most senior software engineers, database architects, and technology leads earn massive six-figure salaries, yet they remain fundamentally trapped on the corporate treadmill. They believe they stay because of career stability, but the brutal truth is an architectural failure of money management: their personal balance sheets are disorganized, lifestyle inflation has consumed their surplus capital...

Stop selling your manual coding labor. Decouple your expertise from the clock, escape the fractional CTO trap, and build high-margin technical advisory retainers. Most senior software engineers, systems architects, and database developers eventually hit an invisible income wall. Even after escaping full-time employment to consult independently, they accidentally recreate their old jobs—spending forty hours a week manually configuring servers, reviewing lines of code, and fighting technical fires. Traditional freelance advice tells you to increase your hourly rate or scale up an agency. ...

The complete three-volume curriculum to break free from corporate tech burnout, productize your specialized engineering expertise, and build a high-yielding independent B2B consulting and software asset empire. Most senior software engineers, systems developers, and database architects eventually hit an invisible operational ceiling. They climb the corporate tech ladder only to find themselves trapped in the golden handcuff paradox—spending their weeks sitting through agonizing cross-departmental alignment loops, navigating reorg politics, and managing administrative compliance while ...

Stop trading hours for pennies. Eliminate client micromanagement, double your creative rates, and build an automated solo production line.Every freelancer faces the nightmare: you did the work, delivered the project on time, and now you are playing the role of an unpaid debt collector. General finance books tell you to "budget better." But when you are trapped in a cash-flow crunch caused by a delinquent client, you don't need generic budgeting advice—you need an emergency survival system. The Frictionless Pricing & Delivery System is a tactical, zero-fluff manual built for independent ...

The Second Act: Career Pivots for Developers Over 40 You are over 40 in an industry that worships 25-year-olds. Your LinkedIn is full of recruiters looking for "high-energy self-starters." Job posts list more frameworks than you have years of experience. Meanwhile, AI is rewriting the rules of what developers do — and the thinkpieces say you should be worried. Here is what those thinkpieces miss: your experience is not a liability. It is leverage. But only if you know how to deploy it. The Second Act is a practical guide for software developers navigating the career crossroads that nobody...

Waterfall methodology is part of the linear, scope-driven lifecycles family of approaches. As it is the manifestation of the command-and-control organization, it is highly prescriptive. Almost all organizations using the methodology have a similar set of processes, mostly based on the PMBOK (more on that later).

Based on elements found in Nature and structure patterns from Chaos theory, it revolutionizes the production and outcome of any software endeavor. Applicable to teams of all sizes, from startups to global enterprises, DevStreams is poised to change the way software gets done in the years to come.