Sales guy here (duck) has a 3 programmers strong team at hand and asks what kind of clients he could provide them with. They love RoR but are not shy of other technologies. They want to do web development as a team. Now the question is what kind of projects can they realistically tackle? I researched the market and it seems there are either programmers going solo doing everything IT for very small firms or you have the mid-size development shop that has a team of 10, 20 or even 25 developers at their disposal. Is there a market for a small team of 3-4 developers? Thank you for reading so far and thanks again for any tip you might have.
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I would say shoot for multiple small projects, to keep everyone as a team have them work on developing useful libraries as the functions are needed for each client. Eventually when you stumble onto a larger client they can work as a team and the library of functions they have developed working for others will become very useful.
That's my 0.02.
Keith Neely
2010-10-15 16:49:22
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A lot depends on the productivity and range of the devs. I work on a team of less than 10 (3 to start with I believe) that boot-strapped a medium to largeish services-based application with web and multiple mobile client interfaces. The two things that helped most was the experience of the team and the productivity of Rails.
In my experience almost any project of any (eventual) size is best started with a small experienced core team (5 or less) that can design and deploy a solid foundational architecture, and then bring on developers as the product grows.
Dave Sims
2010-10-15 16:57:51