Going IT Alone : (Record no. 2692)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781783001415 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1041060563 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| Classification number | QA76.76.D47 .B769 2016 |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 005.1 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brown, Leon. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Going IT Alone : |
| Remainder of title | A Detailed Guide to Self-Employment for Software and Web Developers―from Identifying Your Target Market, Through to Managing Your Time, Finances, and Client Behavior. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Birmingham : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Packt Publishing, Limited, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- About the Reviewer -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introducing Freelancing -- The freelance lifestyle -- Is freelancing for you? -- Defining your motivations -- Boosting employability -- Learning new skills -- Taking a break -- Increasing financial security -- Generating a side income -- Case study: New Star Soccer -- Freedom -- Alternative to unemployment -- Fun -- Don't quit the day job -- Legal entities -- Sole trader -- Partnership -- Limited company -- Home or away? -- The home office -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- The real office -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Renting desk space -- Co-working spaces -- Cafes -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Positioning Yourself in the Market -- Market segments -- Pricing yourself appropriately -- Market specific influences -- The equilibrium price - segments and prices -- Building quality for market segments -- Meeting customer needs -- Market research -- Failing to plan is planning to fail -- Cost to market -- Cost of delivery -- Calculate your profit margin -- Time value -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Defining Your Business Model -- Types of business model for software -- Software Development as a Service (SDaaS) -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Conclusion -- Software as a Product (SaaP) -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Conclusion -- Software as a Service (SaaS) -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Conclusion -- Software Supporting a Service -- Advantages -- Disadvantages -- Conclusion -- Business Model Canvas -- Components -- Value proposition -- Key partnerships -- Key resources -- Key activities -- Customer relationships -- Customer segments -- Distribution channels -- Cost structure -- Revenue streams -- Canvas -- Problem tools -- Product life cycle -- Development -- Introduction -- Growth -- Maturity and saturation. |
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| Formatted contents note | Decline -- Five Forces Analysis -- Rivalry among existing suppliers -- Threat of substitute products or services -- Threat of new entrants -- Bargaining power of suppliers -- Bargaining power of buyers -- Seven Domains Assessment framework -- Market domain/macro level - market attractiveness -- Market domain/micro level - market sector benefits and attractiveness -- Industry domain/macro level - industry attractiveness -- Industry domain/micro level - sustainable advantage -- Team domain - mission, aspirations, and propensity for risk -- Team domain - ability to execute on the critical success factors -- Connectedness up and down the value chain -- The McKinsey 7S framework -- Goals and shared values -- Strategy -- Skills -- Structure -- Style -- Systems -- Staff -- Fitting everything together -- The business descriptions -- IXL Learning -- Nextpoint -- Comparison: McKinsey 7S framework -- Goals and shared values -- Strategy -- Skills -- Structure -- Style -- Systems -- Staff -- Comparison - Business Model Canvas -- IXL Learning -- Nextpoint -- Comparison: conclusion -- IXL Learning -- Nextpoint -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Creating a Brand -- A brief definition of what branding is and isn't -- Know your audience -- Identify perceptions required for objectives -- Specializing - becoming a domain expert -- Generalizing - targeting a wider audience -- Case study -- Kick starting perceptions -- Doing a good job -- Limited time offers -- Competitions -- Rewarding customer loyalty -- Strategic partnerships -- Certifications -- Influencers -- Reliability -- Personality -- Media exposure -- Content marketing -- Who do they think you are? -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Networking, Marketing, and Sales -- Understanding networking -- Defining a networking strategy -- Writing press releases -- Know your audience -- Be specific -- Integrating your agenda. |
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| Formatted contents note | Make it easy to read -- Tips for writing news stories -- Enhancing the reach of your media coverage -- Open project sources -- Project sources -- Being selective -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- The sales process -- Stage 1: Establish the relationship -- Stage 2: Recognizing the need -- Stage 3: Proposing the Solution -- Stage 4: Closing the sale -- Stage 5: Delivery and evaluation -- Summary -- Chapter 6: An Introduction to Client Types -- The ethical client -- Characteristics -- Progression options -- The difficult client -- Characteristics -- Progression options -- The trusting client -- Characteristics -- Progression suggestions -- The nasty client -- Characteristics -- Progression suggestions -- The price-conscious client -- Characteristics -- Progression suggestions -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Managing Clients -- Points of contact -- Performing risk assessment of the project -- Measuring complexity -- Key performance indicators -- Defining client expectations -- Analyzing implications -- Defining an exit strategy -- Analyzing the client -- Commitment -- Ethics and difficulty -- Financial -- Learning and execution -- Consistency -- Negotiation -- Cash flow issues -- Avoiding cash flow problems -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Negotiation -- The Winning Formula -- Timeframe -- Budget -- Depth -- Strategic Negotiation Phases -- Stage 1: Evaluate Priorities & -- Characteristics -- Stage 2: Depth Reduction -- Stage 3: Define Time scales -- Stage 4: Terms of Delivery and Engagement -- Stage 5: Price Identification -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Software Development Resources, Patterns and Strategies -- Software problems: A recap -- Portable code components -- Pure HTML5 applications -- Hybrid applications -- Code translation -- Rescued by object oriented programming -- Maximising reusability, minimising duplication -- Functional adaptability. |
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| Formatted contents note | Clarity of solution implementation -- Strategic efficiency with MVC -- MVC: Models -- Adaptability strategy -- Advantages -- MVC: Views -- Views in action -- Advantages -- MVC: Controllers -- Controllers in action -- Advantages -- Strategic data management -- User interface consistency with data binding -- Database consistency -- API-oriented system architecture -- Why create an API? -- Delivering data -- Developing a HTTP based API -- API design -- API security -- Testing strategy -- Security considerations -- Version control -- Concept glossary -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Software Development Methodology -- Social factors of software development -- Features for preventing problems -- Formality -- Flexibility -- Working hours -- Code patterns -- Specification management -- Skills deployment -- Prototyping -- Planning and analysis -- Time requirements -- Knowledge requirements -- Budget -- Changing requirements -- Problem definition -- Culture analysis -- Technology evaluation -- Risk analysis -- Viability analysis -- Milestone identification -- Timescales -- Methodologies of interest -- Waterfall model -- Conclusion -- Incremental model -- Conclusion -- Spiral model -- Conclusion -- Agile development -- SSM: Soft Systems Methodology -- Conclusion -- Designing your methodology -- Formal structure -- Team communications policy -- Planning -- Testing -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Creating Quotes and Estimates -- Maths to the rescue: The basics -- Performance rating -- Client rating -- Example -- Estimation -- Example -- Quotes -- Example -- Risk management -- Counteracting risk -- Calculating risk -- Recovering unaccounted costs -- Examples -- Maintaining estimation accuracy -- Average client ratings -- Example -- Selective client ratings -- Example -- Proportionate client ratings -- Example -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Project Management -- Client perceptions. |
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| Formatted contents note | Methods of communication -- Meetings -- Telephone -- Conference calls -- E-mail -- Social media -- Post -- Allocating the right people -- Who is capable of performing the task? -- Who is ideal for the task? -- Who is available? -- What are the limiting factors? -- Written agreements -- Feature creep -- Risk assessment -- Project nature -- Team politics -- Expectations -- Legalities -- Defining a specification -- Creating a specification document -- Definitions -- Summary -- Requirements -- System overview -- Design -- Timescales -- Cost plan -- Feedback -- Meetings -- Survey tools -- Prototyping -- Email -- Conference calls -- Release cycles -- How often? -- Feature order -- The parking list -- Summary -- Appendix -- Interview 1 -- Interview 2 -- Interview 3 -- Interview 4 -- Interview 5 -- Interview 6 -- Appendix. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Computer software-Development. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Self-employed. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Brown, Leon |
| Title | Going IT Alone: the Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited,c2016 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5415213">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5415213</a> |
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