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Although The UML Guy is available for custom
software development, he can provide even more value if you have a developer
team and would like to grow their skill set and your intellectual capital. In
addition to high-end developer training, he
he offers consulting and mentoring services. Working with your team on a
periodic schedule, he'll help them to
analyze requirements,
architect and design systems,
implement solutions, and
review their work --
and he'll train them as they work, helping them to build the skills that
will make your company faster, more effective, and more profitable.
You can bring The UML Guy in for a day, a week, or longer. Or you can set up a
regular mentoring schedule, where The UML Guy comes in and works with your team
on a regular schedule, then lets them work on their own, and then returns to
review their work and turn it into customized training on specific topics that
are immediately applicable to your project and also relevant to the
growth of your team. You can even mix in formal classroom training.
If you have a project team trying to learn and apply...
...then you should contact The UML Guy and discuss how
he can help your team become more effective and productive as they work.
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In the software business, consultants can be a trap. They
come in and develop some system -- maybe well, maybe poorly -- and leave
just when ongoing maintenance and support begins. Your team doesn't learn
how the system works, and may become disillusioned: they're "not good enough
to do the cool work" the consultant did; but they get the 3 a.m. phone call
when it's broken.
I've been on that team, and I've seen how it can impact your team's morale
and your productivity; and I never want to be that consultant.
When I leave your project, I want your team to know that they've grown and
learned. They can do more than support the new tool; they can build the next one.
-- Martin L. Shoemaker
(The UML Guy)
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