Adam Leffert will be
visiting on Thursday, February 11. Spend some time thinking about how
you'd like him to divide his time addressing some of the following
topics:
-
Career
Working for software companies vs. working for businesses
Full-time vs. contracting
Small Company vs. Large Company
Ups and Downs
- Consulting
Choosing clients
Large or small projects?
Pricing
Hourly vs. Fixed-Bid
Support (there will always be bugs)
- Technology
Project Management
Time Estimates
Requirements Gathering
Prototypes
Managing Client Expectations
- IT Industry
What are the most difficult challenges in IT work?
When will programmers become obsolete?
and
From: Adam Leffert
To: Ethan Bolker
Subject: Re: UMass class visit
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:19:38 -0500
Also, the students could Google:
site:devexpress.com "adam leffert"
to see a list of forum posts I've written on DevExpress.com.
DevExpress is the company that makes the ASP.Net controls and
application framework (XAF) that I use.
Some of the posts are on narrow technical topics, but some of are
focused on topics that might be of interest.
I've avoided mentioning Micrsoft-specific technologies in my topic list
(previous email) because I assumed the students are more focused on open
source. Not sure if that's true.
Adam