Author Archives: Jeff Maaks

How to Successfully Onboard A Consultant

Ground Your Approach in Consulting Best Practices In today’s fast-paced professional services landscape, organizations are constantly growing and evolving. In this environment setting up your team for success–is essential. Successful consultant onboarding is much more than handing a laptop, email … Read More

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SUSECON 2025: Applying Our New SUSE Certs Immediately!

We meant to write this post right after we returned from SUSECON 2025 in Orlando. Really, we did. We attended some awesome technical sessions. In between them, we met up with some great customers and partners-both old and new. And … Read More

Resolve Project Uncertainty with Agile

Apply agile and scrum processes to overcome project ambiguity and achieve successful outcomes. Through the application of Agile and Scrum frameworks consultants can resolve project uncertainty and achieve successful customer outcomes. In the dynamic world of Professional Services, consultants often … Read More

Lab Discipline and Automation

Internal labs are a great resource for sales demos, training, testing upgrades and configuration changes, and replicating issues to help identify solutions and perform root-cause analysis.  However, too often we take shortcuts and don’t use the same discipline and automation … Read More