How to make 2018 the best year of your career?
Failure is what I practice daily. Every successful executive (CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs, etc.) I know or have ever worked with believes and lives this quote. Failing fast is a science, but being able to predict failure and success is both an art and a sc...
10 Reasons You Don't Want to Miss MVP Mix
MVP Mix is a premium international developer conference that offers two-day intense training on cutting edge technologies. Technologies include Angular, React, .Net Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, HTML5, JavaScript, ECMAScript, Xamarin, Ty...
DevConnections 2017
This week concluded the annual IT/DevConnections conference in San Francisco, attended by more than 1,000 developers and IT professionals from all over the world (44 different countries). Chander Dhall, CEO of Cazton and the Dev Track Chair for the c...
Developer to Manager: What Are You Doing Wrong?
In the world of technology, a funny thing happens. People who have technical backgrounds, technical experience, technical education climb the ranks within the company and then become technical managers. Now, think about this for a minute. A person ...
Why CTO's Must be Hands-On to Survive
If you are not hands-on, you are getting yourself fired. 2016 was not a very good year for technical companies or their CTOs. And it isn't just tech companies that have a CTO these days. In fact, every company is a tech company in today's world giv...
Bill Rate: The Biggest Scam
Bill rates are a bizarre anomaly in our industry. In one example, I can sum up why: I have five people that are not capable for the job, but I can hire all of them because they are less than $100/hour; but I cannot hire one guy who is capable of com...
10 Things a Developer Should Do
As the CEO of a company, I have had a lot of opportunities to work with different kinds of developers. To be a great developer, a person should embody certain qualities that make him better than others in his field. In this article, I've listed some ...
Top Mistakes Tech Execs Make
The low hourly rate creates a challenge for a lot of US-based consulting companies. It's workable for my company, but I could easily see how mid-size consulting companies with no offshore resources may not be able to work at that rate.
Top Mistakes Tech Execs Make
As an expert in the tech field, I get to speak at top conferences all over the world. My work includes everything from training developers and architects how to write code that is sustainable, modular and scalable to advising executives how to be mor...
Are Big Consulting Companies On The Verge of Extinction?
Are Big Consulting Companies On The Verge of Extinction? - Part 2
As CEO of several software and software services businesses and a speaker at conferences internationally, I have met with tech companies and techies all over the world and have come across some fundamentals worth sharing. As CEO of several software a...Are Big Consulting Companies On The Verge of Extinction?
As CEO of several software and software services businesses and a speaker at conferences internationally, I have met with tech companies and techies all over the world and have come across some fundamentals worth sharing. As CEO of several software a...
Top reasons why CIOs fail
This article is a manifestation of my actual experience in the Corporate World. I came to this country 8 years ago, found some amazing mentors, worked hard, succeeded in software development consulting (my team does custom software/web/app developmen...