I doubt that strategy would have been of interest to this organisation, due to this part: > they had never released a production application before. It's enti

I doubt that strategy would have been of interest to this organisation, due to this part: > they had never released a production application before. It's entirely understandable to end up with a poor-performing team if you start out without any in-house technical knowledge. But how did they end up with a team comprised entirely of people without any experience at all? That to me indicates that, rather than being unable to identify good candidates, they intentionally tried to cut corners. Telling an organisation like this how to identify better candidates isn't going to make a blind bit of difference because they aren't interested in better, they are interested in cheaper.