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Thxs for the feedback. It sounds like you were in the same position as me, your a non-techie and you hired developers. The only difference was geography, your d

by jim84 16y ago

Thxs for the feedback. It sounds like you were in the same position as me, your a non-techie and you hired developers. The only difference was geography, your developers were local whereas mine are overseas. So how did you address the quality issue? How did you know what the developers were giving you was actually good stuff? I can't assume that just because I outsourced to India that the code they write is going to be worse then what a US developer would do. In fact if I stayed with a US developer I would have the exact same problem. Whether the developer I hire is in the US, India, Canada etc, problem is still sorting the good from the bad. I'm just saying local does not equal good programming. With any developer you aways go through the same stages, checking experience, references, past projects etc but in the end it comes down to trust (which I have in my team) and verification (which I don't have). How should I get the verification? How did you verify your developer's work?

dcaldwell 16y ago
True, local doesn't equal quality. I guess the difference was that by going local, I was able to verify the quality of my developer's work by people I trusted rather than from people I didn't know. What's more important, the endorsement of a respected businesses person, designer, or developer that you personally know and respect their work, or the endorsement of a random person that someone lists as a reference? The back end developer that I hired was a speaker at a regional conference, seemed to have the respect of the web community that I was looking to enter (Rails development and MailChimp-esque design and UI,) and had glowing references from web designers and developers that I knew at least as acquaintances. These designers and developers were actually clamoring to use him for freelance stuff before I hired him. If this is the route you want to take, I would suggest networking within your local web design community and go to events. If you want to go the other route, listen to/watch the podcast on Mixergy.com from Nov. 24 on Beanstalk. That guy used a distributed team across the world to do development for his company. The big difference is that he was already a developer.
- jim84 16y ago
  cool thanks a lot for the info

by jim84 16y ago

dcaldwell 16y ago

True, local doesn't equal quality. I guess the difference was that by going local, I was able to verify the quality of my developer's work by people I trusted rather than from people I didn't know. What's more important, the endorsement of a respected businesses person, designer, or developer that you personally know and respect their work, or the endorsement of a random person that someone lists as a reference? The back end developer that I hired was a speaker at a regional conference, seemed to have the respect of the web community that I was looking to enter (Rails development and MailChimp-esque design and UI,) and had glowing references from web designers and developers that I knew at least as acquaintances. These designers and developers were actually clamoring to use him for freelance stuff before I hired him. If this is the route you want to take, I would suggest networking within your local web design community and go to events. If you want to go the other route, listen to/watch the podcast on Mixergy.com from Nov. 24 on Beanstalk. That guy used a distributed team across the world to do development for his company. The big difference is that he was already a developer.

jim84 16y ago
cool thanks a lot for the info