Category Archives: Consulting Excellence

Large projects automatically generate their share of humorous events and mishaps. The above statement was put into a dialogue box in  a program by a developer for the simple reason to mess with the QA & Testing group as a … Continue reading →

When I reached 1 Million mile status on both Air Canada and Delta airlines, I stopped counting. Suffice it to say that I have travelled a great deal. While there are advantages and disadvantages to travel, one enduring benefit is … Continue reading →

Today we have lots of methodologies. Lots and lots of them. They give us process, they define artefacts and deliverables, they provide roles and governance and they provide lifetime employment for “gurus” to write bookshelf straining tomes to explain them. … Continue reading →

An independent consultant at CERN from June to December 1980 proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing of information among researchers and built a solution. When he returned to CERN in 1984 he saw an … Continue reading →

When I started my full-time career in IT (coop work terms excluded), I started as the CEO of my own company and was very successful for a few years. By doing so, you skip over all of the things you … Continue reading →

Kermit the frog made the line  “It’s not easy being green” famous. But it is even harder to be grey.  Grey removes the safety of absolutes, challenges us to be better at our chosen craft and challenges us to make … Continue reading →

In my book Infinite Shades of Grey: Advanced Consulting,  I propose a paradigm for consulting based on the understanding that the client’s problem can never be defined completely in black and white. The process used or desired is neither black … Continue reading →