Comments on: 6 simple steps to becoming a top IT consultant

By: udidahan

udidahan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:32:16 +0000

Anup,

For books, I would suggest “Flawless Consulting” and a lot of Gerald Weinberg’s writing. I’m afraid I don’t know much about the indpendent consulting circuit in India but do wish you the best.

By: Anup

Anup — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:17:05 +0000

Dear Sir
I came to know about your blog while googling for more information about IT Consultant, i am a Technical Engineer working in IT industry since 5 years and very much intrested to know more about IT Consultant, Need your suggestion/guidance and expert advice regarding books, white papers, courses etc… as a beginner to start with this career. As i am from india want to know what is the scope for IT Consultant in india ?
your response on this will be highly appreciated

Thanks & regards
Anup

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By: Yoni Goldberg

Yoni Goldberg — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:27:00 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this one. I’m spending a lot of
time and effort to advance my career, while reading this post
i realized and understood some basic mistakes that i’m doing.
I believe, today, any professional in any field must understand
marketing in order to succeed. Even as employee for some company: marketing your self inside the company is almost important as doing good job.

By: thesoftwaresimplist

thesoftwaresimplist — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:30:07 +0000

Gil: Glad you liked it. I know so many people who are GREAT at what they do, but fall short in publicizing it. Consultants need both.

Guy: Thanks for the compliment, and I wish you the best of luck in conquering your niche.

By: Guy Kolbis

Guy Kolbis — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:51:03 +0000

First let me just note that this is a great post. Now let me introduce myself, I am a consultant at SRL and I attended several of your presentations on several user groups. I have to agree upon each and every sentence you wrote. It has been hard getting into consulting although I previously I was a CTO and had experience in management and so forth. Only after a year and a half I found my niche and started lecturing at Microsoft event and user groups. Still there is quite a few work left to be done in order to be a well known and well excepted expert (like you ). Keep up the good work!

By: Gil Zilberfeld

Gil Zilberfeld — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:21:34 +0000

Udi,

Thanks for the post. It came at a good time, as I am contemplating my current position, where I want to go and how I get there. I think consultancy has a better chance of succeeding once you are visible and accessible enough.

You still have to be good at what you do. But getting customers to come looking for you, takes exposure.

Keep posting (I’m trying to keep up with the tech)

Gil

By: thesoftwaresimplist

thesoftwaresimplist — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:09:28 +0000

Paul,

Glad you like the stuff I put out enough to list me under the “superstar” category of your blog. I’m honoured.

I think that the basis for our disagreement hinges on the definition of what a top IT consultant really is. For me, it’s quite simply the hourly/daily rate one commands. From your comment, I understand that your definition of “top” equates to knowledge.

If my post suggested that one’s knowledge is dependent on one’s ability to blog and speak in public, that was not my intent, nor do I believe that it is true.

Just as a parting thought: this post was based on a broad empirical and experiential perspective of who is perceived to be a top consultant by a broad cross-section of the industry.

I’m always glad to receive feedback and thank you for your comment. I hope that my response clears things up.

By: Paul Lockwood

Paul Lockwood — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:40:50 +0000

Keep up the blog and podcasts, I normally really enjoy them – saying that I must disagree with this post. This post suggests ‘if you don’t have a blog or do public speaking then how can you know anything?’. It is amazing how many bloggers I meet with this attitude.

There are several brilliant IT consultants I can immediately think of that do not have blogs and are little known outside of where they have worked. Frankly they are much better at their jobs than many big names I know.

Maybe the title should have been ‘How to Appear a Top IT Consultant’?