A talk I gave in 2011 on careers in consulting

1. A Consulting Project

2. About Me
Blog:
www.codeconfessions.com
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@codeconfessions

6. Agile Manifesto
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

7. Planning Poker

8. Sprints

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10. Agile Practices
• Frequent Source Control Check Ins
• Continuous Integration
• Test Driven

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What Is Silverlight?

12. Partial CQRS

13. SOA / ORM

14. Multiparadigmatic Programming
• Procedural
• Object Oriented
• Functional
• Dynamic
• Meta
• Parallel?

15. The Velocity Team

16. Velocity Cake!

18. Why Consulting?
• You’re an asset, not a cost.
• Get to change jobs with career continuity
• Bit of a buffer between opportunities

19. Why Sogeti Consulting?
• Compensation for extra hours worked
• Training and software costs covered (soft
skills, technical books, etc.)
• Bench Buffer between gigs
• Choice of Travel
• Benefits of full employment with variety of
contracting

23. Take these Classes!
• 4345 Software engineering principles
• 4346 Software engineering design project
• 5314 Software Testing and Quality Assurance
• 5319 Software Architecture and Design
• 5330 File Organization and Database
Management
• 5340 Service Oriented Solutions
• 5345 Advanced application programming
• 5382 Computer graphics

24. Getting Hired: Do Some of this
• Open Source Project Contrib
• Show multiple strengths
• Be a team player
• Project work a plus