Rick Freedman
Author of "The IT Consultant"
Author "The Agile Consultant", The IT Consultant”, plus dozens of articles on IT topics. Rick has been a project manager and consultant for over 25 years, for companies like Intel, Microsoft, and AIG.
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Jim Highsmith Interview, Nov. 2000, on ‘agile’ before the Manifesto
In this Consultant Q&A, columnist Rick Freedman catches up with Cutter Consortium's Jim Highsmith, the leader of the "light methodology" movement. Read on as we examine light methodology and what it means for today's e-consultants.
Unlike the ad hoc approaches that came with rapid application development and the stifling structure of “heavy methodologies” that were used commonly in the 1970s and 1980s, “light methodology” offers e-consultancies a way to complete large, complex W...
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The Agile Consultant: Guiding Clients to Enterprise Agility
Learn the agile philosophy of lean processes, incremental delivery, deep client participation, decentralized authority, and just-in-time planning to bring speed, creativity, empowerment and increased productivity to product development. This book is your guide to becoming the go-to advisor for the enterprise agile transition.
Many organizations have brought in agile coaches and achieved great progress in software development productivity, only to find teams slipping back into old methods as t...
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The eConsultant: Guiding Clients to Net Success 1, Rick Freedman - Amazon.com
The eConsultant: Guiding Clients to Net Success 1, ...
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Future Internet: where today's top 'net trends are driving us
Future Internet: where today's top 'net trends are ...
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A conversation with a knowledge management guru, part 1 ...
Delivering what you promise is essential for any IT consultant. Skip McDonald, director of knowledge management for Luminant, helps consultants at his
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Adopting PMI standards in an IT environment | TechRepublic
With the influence of the Project Management Institute growing, many IT-related organizations have begun to adopt PMI standards for their projects. Le
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Agile drivers for new project management tools | TechRepublic
Rick Freedman discusses the agile drivers and concepts that create the need for new project management tools.
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Agile grows up and new challenges emerge | TechRepublic
The conversation shift from “why should we adopt agile?” to “how can we adapt to agile across the enterprise?” presents a new