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You Want Clarity
Refine your goals and find the core priorities for success.
Many people, like you, have reached a point where they need help with unclear career paths or project directions.
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You Want Accountability
Find a path to success that will help you maintain progress.
I provide structured guidance and accountability, ensuring you progress and optimize your approach at every step.
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You Want to Learn
Learn a new skill, process, or task.
Whether it’s a new technology or a complex system, I’ve helped many overcome the steep learning curve and struggle with understanding new concepts.
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You Want a Strategy
Discover a path that relies on your strengths.
I customize my services to fit your schedule and specific challenges. I help you leverage your unique skills most effectively.
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You Want an Expert Opinion
Get unbiased opinions about technology choices.
With a background in multiple sectors, I provide insights that are not just theoretical but grounded in diverse practical experiences.
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You Want a Mentor
Grow as a software engineer and technology leader.
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About James Smith
As a seasoned advisor and coach, I bring various experiences, ranging from enterprise IT and academic research at large universities to healthcare startups, model and simulation ventures, US defense and national security initiatives, federal government projects, and collaborative engagements with state agencies.
With a foundation in mathematics and physics, complemented by a degree in creative writing, my journey is a testament to the fusion of analytical rigor and creative problem-solving. This interdisciplinary background enables me to approach challenges from multiple angles, fostering innovative, human-centered solutions and a dynamic problem-solving approach.
Building a Roadmap
You’re ready to build a roadmap if you’ve reviewed your project’s MVP or MMF and listed the features you need…
Planning Features
How do we start working on our project now that we know our MVP, MMF, and success goals? Large projects…
MVPs, MMFs, and Audiences
When we start a new project, we want to identify the smallest and simplest outcome that might be useful to…
Five-Star Applications
Have you inherited a mess of an application that isn’t ready for a modern cloud deployment with an orchestration layer…
Common Project Management Problems
When learning a new way of doing things, we should reflect on our past. What have we seen work well…
Agile Project Management
This is the first in a series of posts based on my workbook for the Agile Project Management course I…