Note: This essay is not always applicable while some projects definitely demand a straight work schedule, reporting and collaboration between the team members. However it reflects the majority of projects and clients out there in the wild.
As an employer I prefer to charge on a project basis. It's easier to plan my budgets and the costs of ...
Every time I need to do estimates, I cringe a little. I no longer do estimates for small and medium clients since it creates false expectations and takes a huge amount of time.
Estimations, by their very nature, are educated guesses. But the word "guess" doesn't inspire much confidence.
Predicting a project's exact amount of time, resourc...
Selling a WordPress-driven platform to small or medium-sized businesses (SMB) is a major challenge for freelancers and small businesses.
Every SMB is unique, with its requirements, goals, and visions. A generic pitch might not resonate with them. Customization and understanding individual business needs are crucial to making the WordPress...
I’ve been quoted in hundreds of roundups on all sorts of management and leadership questions—from ways to build resilience (Forbes) through identifying toxic cultures (Inc) to warning signs for new hires (Small Business Trends).
While looking for the “Philosopher’s Stone” (or the next “Golden Rush”) is a normal human trait, ...
Building a successful organization requires a comprehensive business strategy across each of your departments.
It is also closely related to your business model, the industry you belong to, the status of your finances, the available opportunities, and—of course—your team.
While your senior management team may be aligned with the co...
Resilience is among the mandatory traits for career growth.
Regardless of whether you're striving to be an exemplary entrepreneur or grow the career ladder across management and director tiers, sustaining loads of work, weekend deliveries, flying from a tradeshow to an event with high velocity is a prerequisite to building high-performing...
John Locke wrote an article named "There are no Clients from Hell" referring to the popular site for freelancers - Clients From Hell. I've been following the site for some time and there are plenty of educational stories, both for freelancers and clients.
What John says in his post is:
This site encourages the idea that clients who make non...
What makes a $2,000 development project different from a $40K one?
Code quality.
The $2,000 project incurs the so-called "technical debt". A messy, spaghetti-like codebase is 5x, 10x, 20x more complicated to maintain, which skyrockets the maintenance costs over time.
Technical debt is a well-known phenomenon in tech. But due to the ...
"Mentorship" is a vague term. Great mentors are successful industry leaders who are your indirect competitors (or at least a few years ahead of time).
Someone may pick their own mentor when they are a public figure and consume every bit of information they produce.
If you choose a mentor who is only a few years your senior in the same ...
If your company hasn’t grown to a fully-fledged corporation yet, you’re probably terrified (if not disgusted) from all the enterprise lingo - workflows, procedures, contingency plans, risk management (to name a few).
But scaling an organization is impossible without the implementation of business process management (BPM) practices in-...
