Welcome to Software Customer 101

Posted on January 28th, 2007 by Carl Erickson

Six years of working with people who have ideas for software projects they think will help them or their company make money has taught me a few things. Speaking in terms of my first career (as a professor), I feel the time is right to introduce a new course: Software Customer 101.

My hope is to improve the odds for Atomic Object customers and potential customers to have a successful project and make money from their great ideas.

The material in this course will be grouped into six major sections:

I. Inconvenient Truths

II. Doing Your Homework

III. Evaluating a Vendor

IV. Evaluating a Proposal

V. Making the Choice

VI. Running your Project

Filed in: Business of Software


2 Responses to “Welcome to Software Customer 101”

  1. Rick Says:

    January 29th, 2007 at 05:21 AM

    Your Carl Erickson link is bad http://atomicobjetc.com/pages/Carl+Erickson atomicobjeCT.com. I'm interested in this course, is it being presented online or in the classroom?

  2. Mike Karlesky Says:

    January 29th, 2007 at 05:50 AM

    Thank you for catching the bad link. It's been fixed. The "course" is being presented online through a progression of blog posts (20 or so) Carl will be authoring. We're only through the introduction of the material so far. Eventually, we hope to pull these posts together into an article or presentation or possibly even a one day training course. Participation from readers through comments and suggestions is very welcome.


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