Let’s Talk About your Billable Rate

I’ve got a few topics relating to my experience at agencies that I’ve been looking to share for some time. Now that I’m going my own way as a consultant with the goal of maybe expanding on that as well as somehow helping out at an agency again; I’m going to start to work through […]

Notes from the Interview Front

Sadly, I won’t be sharing a bunch of funny anecdotes from my time on the interview trail. While that might be fun, there are some bigger trends that I wanted to talk about after having reviewed dozens of job descriptions and talking to dozens of people at one level or another over the month of […]

Current Status: Independent Consultant

As many of you know, my run at Wellington ended at the end of February. My contract wasn’t renewed for reasons beyond my control and that was that. No more suits, sadly.* One of the big problems with that contract ending was that the timing of it was a little abrupt. I found out just […]

Front End Engineering Spectrum Poll Results

The results of my poll are in. Thanks to everyone who filled it out and shared it. It’s much appreciated and it gave me some insight into where we are in terms of roles, organizations size and maturity and, probably most interestingly to me, what we’re called on out business cards. Let’s look at the […]