How To Be A Consultant

Currently Playing: How To Be A Consultant - Quality & Risk Management by Adam Leon Smith

Benefit from the wisdom and expertise of experienced consultants to maximise your success in consultancy! This programme will be particularly valuable for new and aspiring consultants. It is a series of short, interactive, TED-style talks, where expert speakers discuss success factors with an audience that harnesses the wisdom of experienced consultants with the energy of newcomers. It is aimed at new entrants to the profession as well as experienced IT practitioners from all specialities who are considering a move into consultancy. We also encourage experienced consultants to join the audience and share their own thoughts, advice and experiences. The sessions will be around 15-20 minutes of presentation with a further 10-15 minutes allowed for contributions from other experienced attendees and questions from the audience. Three topics are covered in each 90-minute event. The talks will also be made available as a set of 21 videos to provide a permanent resource for people starting a consultancy career. This talk is about Quality & Risk Management QRM). We have prepared two talks for this title. These reflect two very different aspects. In this session Adam Leon Smith discusses how to achieve good quality in your deliverables or outcomes. In the following session, Simon Wallace describes the corporate QRM regimes that are common in large consultancy firms. These focus on the definition and review of required working practices, About the speaker Adam Leon Smith is CTO of a technology consultancy called Dragonfly. Dragonfly specialises in quality and testing, so the consultancy work needs to be high-quality too! He is also Chair of the BCS Special Interest Group in Software Testing, and Director of ForHumanity, a non-profit examining the impact of technology on humanity.