Building a practice
Here we are half way through the Webcast series ...
If any of you have ever built a Consulting practice before, you probably understand the amount of hard work that goes into wearing a number of hats.
1. Technical sales
2. Recruiter
3. Delivery
4. Public speaker
I love doing all of those things - it just gets tiring doing them all at the same time. Neudesic has built a tremendous reputation in the BizTalk, Sharepoint, Custom Application Development, and CRM practices in a number of large western US markets, and now the SQL/BI practice is growing in leaps and bounds. I have focused on building the SQL/BI practice by hiring top quality, high value consultants (it is the same model the other practice managers and company founders used). I just need more people.
Because of our exposure and my, and SQL team's experience we are often called upon to assist in 2005 implementations and migrations (heck I haven't had to work on a 2000 database in a couple of years). We also have a world-class OLTP expert (a former SQL Product team and MCS person) that has some of the largest clients in country as former customers, and the keep asking for him to come back and fix problems - that provides us an entry into some fantastic environments to work and learn.
Anybody interested?
I hope the followers of my MSDN webcasts have found the information useful. I have been trying to follow the good feedback I have received to improve the delivery. There is always a bit of gap between what a person knows and what they can communicate, so while I have used a lot of the features we have discussed, the ability to clearly describe them in a coherent fashion is a skill that needs to be developed. Thank you all for your feedback. Keep it coming. I hope the second half continues to improve.
Please let me know if you start implementing any of the features we have discussed, I would love to hear more cases where the new features apply and add value.
Steve Muise
Neudesic LLC
SQL/BI Practice Manager
Steve.Muise<RemoveThisToEmailMe>@Neudesic.com