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Book Birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Focus on Relationships That Matter

Johanna Rothman

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Focus on Relationships That Matter. Here's the story of the consulting book. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. So several people asked me how I had become a successful consultant. See Manage It!

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What is Digital Transformation Consulting?

Modus Create

The world of consulting is often associated with truckloads of jargon. Similarly, the world of technology is no stranger to its own stream of techspeak. Today, let’s simplify one such concept – digital transformation consulting. What Is Digital Transformation Consulting? What Is Digital Transformation Consulting?

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Book Birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit

Johanna Rothman

I am thrilled to announce a book birthday: Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit. Here's the story of the consulting book. In the mid-2000s… I started my consulting business back in 1994. So several people asked me how I had become a successful consultant. See Manage It!

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Finding Great Product Managers

The Product Coalition

Slightly less useless are the case interview formats used by many top-tier consulting firms. Unfortunately, despite their effectiveness, few employers make use of cognitive tests, maybe due fear it turns them off, or sensitivity to accusations of systemic bias. That is, unless the product job is decidedly non-technical.

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Digital Sustainability: A Growing Frontier in Software Development

The Product Coalition

Digital technology has inadvertently become a significant contributor to the growing carbon footprint of the tech industry. That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority.

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How to get into product management with ‘the wrong’ background.

The Product Coalition

He doesn’t have a technical background and currently works in a different domain. He’s become passionate about technology and wants to make a career switch. They spent a few years in another job, maybe as an analyst or consultant. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either. John doesn’t have that.

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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

become a professional services/custom consulting company. Or partner with a real professional services firm which explicitly sells the time and expertise of its technical staff.  When  When our customers need something we won’t (or shouldn’t) do, we refer them outside.  Customers