I am a consultant. Each morning I get up travel to meet clients to help them deal with their own unique challenges. I am not just a consultant, I am also a software developer and truth be told the whole consultant thing is nothing more than another interface that I implement.

Because I implement the consultant interface I am often lumped into a bucket with consultants from other industries and fall victim to the same stereotypes. And there have been various comics, movies and web-sites where consultants are often the cause of much mirth and even ridicule.

At Code Camp Oz this year we are going to have a few sessions which focus on the business side of software development including Dave Lemphers who will be talking about services consulting. I expect these sessions to be quite popular and start a bit of discussion.

Before I can contribute to such a discussion however, I need to really bed down my own thoughts on this strange business that we are in. I’m going to try (no promises) to put up a series of posts about important aspects of being a consultant in the technology business. I can imagine topics such as the following coming up:

So if you are interested be sure to tune in to my feed and I will espouse my personal philosophy on the consulting business and the rules of engagement.