If your company is offering consulting or services for the Plone, open source content management system, or if you are thinking about starting a Plone consulting company, you are welcome to join in this discussion.

Proposal for a panel at the Plone Conference 2007 in Naples, Italy:

So you want to be a Plone consultant?  Lessons learned from leading Plone companies

Possible questions (add your own below - this is a wiki)

1. how do you find projects?
2. how do you find developers, project managers and designers?
   
3. how do you determine how much to charge? 
   
4. what are the challenges of running a Plone consultancy?
5. how do you market your services?  who do you see as your target audience?
6. how do you transition from a sole freelancer to a multiple person company?
7. do you practice agile development methodology and if so, why?
8. do you practice pair programming and if so, why?
9. do you use optional scope contracts and if so, why?
10. do you subject your developers to the 10% plone manifesto?
    

Distributed Teams

If you are interested in the question of how to manage a distributed team, in which the project managers, developers and designers are geographically dispersed, please visit the Distributed Teams project and join the mailing list to get in on the discussion.

Tools of the trade

Tools that you use to improve your business processes, manage the development process and better communicate with your co-workers.