Outsourcing
I've got too much to do in too little time. Can you recommend a freelancing / outsourcing service ? Also how do you manage the source code, are there any services like Google code but for closed-source projects ? ...
outsourcing
Is there a better alternative to rentacoder for developers?
I've read a lot of reviews about rentacoder and all of them say that the pay is too low, do you know a better site? ...
Multi-site development
Most of the development teams I have worked with have been geographically dispersed often across several continents. What techniques and tools have you found effective when working with a team which does not sit together in the same office? ...
What to charge
I plan to start a small company with a friend and we are trying to work out how to price for people that want to outsource to us for PHP, Python, (My|Postgre)SQL, HTML/CSS JS and SEO. Assuming that there is no fixed going rate that we can find, how should we work out what to charge per hour? ...
Hiring a Freelance Graphics Person
Say I'm a one-person programming shop, and I need to get some graphics for an application: icons, backgrounds, etc. What are some of the things I need to know before I hire someone to do that stuff for me? How have some of you been burned when doing something similar? ...
How do you handle poor quality code from a third party contractor in another country?
Let's just say the boss is addicted to the price of poor code, and will keep on outsourcing chunks of greenfield projects to cheap labour, only to get inhouse devs to fix the bugs. ...
Outsourcing
I am possibly going to have to outsource some work, the good news is that I will have a lot of authority over what I do (so no silly red tape) but the bad news is that I have no experience. I am not asking for suggested locations to find people that I can outsource to but for suggestions on how to make the best use of them and tips to h...
Should you enforce coding practice on your third party development team?
I've written up a number of guidlines on codeing practice for a third party developer. One such practice is that no vb file should build up HTML in the code behind. Any HTML should appear in ASCX or ASPX files (so our web designers don't have to learn vb). Every time they release code it contains numerous stringbuilders. How can enforce ...
What is the one most important reason projects fail when done by external systems integrators?
Our company is engaging an external Systems Integrator to develop its new mission critical system. I was hoping to compile the likely reasons it will fail so that we can anticipate these and safe guard against them. ...
Outsourcing and your job.
Has outsourcing had an impact on your job? Good or bad. I for one have had terrible experiences with having to maintain code that was outsourced. On things that are less than trivial, does it really save money in the long run? ...
How to safeguard an inside software development team from being outsourced?
There is a lot of talk on why outsourcing (and off-shoring) of software development jobs in a long run has an adverse effect for a business. However, most of these arguments are well understood only by folks who are heavily into software development themselves and there is an apparent difficulty in putting these arguments across to "poli...
Outsourcing Classes by Supporting Unit Tests
I've got an application which developed by employing TDD as methodology (not strictly but mostly). Now I want to outsource some parts of the application because I don't have enough time to develop it. I'm planning use websites such as "Rent A Coder", "elancer" etc. I don't want to give out my code to anyone else, so I'm planning to giv...
Outsourcing a project that needs an improvement in code quality
As my company's sole internal developer one of my main tasks is the maintenance of a medium sized inventory tracking .NET web forms application. The application itself was coded initially by a half-insane programmer with questionable credentials using many techniques (including such high-minded concepts as Ajax and N-tier architecture) ...
Should certification matter when hiring or outsourcing a person, or should we look further?
Many times we had the need to hire or outsource additional developers for a project. We follow usual the process of advertising the job opening, collecting resumes/CVs, and pick the candidates for the interview. There are candidates that have a lot of good project experience, but not certified (say, Java-Certified). Then there are candi...
How to work with subcontractors
I'm in the happy situation to run a boutique like software development setting: The client describes the problem. I code a solution, test it, write some documentation and an invoice and usually everybody is happy. Works nice but results in very little upfront documentation, requirements and the like. To get more work done I tried to ou...
Does outsourcing make you worry about the security of your job?
Everyone says that IT work (the technical stuff like programming, etc) is always outsourced to India because the cost of living there is less, and thus the price of work (especially be freelancers) is therefore a lot less than someone doing the work in a developed country like the UK/USA. Being Indian myself (but living in the UK), I can...
sites for outsourced, task-orientated coding resources
Are there any sites where one can get sections of programming done for really reasonable rates? I'm looking for a "software" market. Somewhere where you can get someone to take over your code (and, in some cases, entire project) for a while to get a certain section coded for a pre-decided amount of money. Hopefully the developer and r...
How to find software development resources for a startup company?
I'm currently working on my own startup business, and need a company to do some software developement for it. I'm having trouble getting large companies (Siemens/IBM) to listen to me, and finding companies that want to take on the creation of what appears to be some challenging software is just as hard. Any hints or tips would be great. ...
Shortage of programmers?
There is a New York Times article about Google complaining about a lack of qualified US programmers even in this economic downturn: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12immig.html They elaborate on how one of the immigrant programmers there was able to solve problems that local ones couldn't: Enter Mr. Mavinkurve, who float...
Tips for successful, long distance development?
My small business is just about to start a program of work. The 2 of us have been in the same industry for many years and believe we have come up with a simple solution to a VERY common problem. We will know we have succeeded when it becomes a no-brainer to use our software and we can continue to solve the various problems encountered by...