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How much is your own time worth? If you're hiring developers who need lots of hand-holding, you're going to burn up much more of your own time. You're also taki
by pjungwir 13y ago
How much is your own time worth? If you're hiring developers who need lots of hand-holding, you're going to burn up much more of your own time. You're also taking on more risk of wasting a month or two on a failed project.
- trevmckendrick 13y agoTrue. Some developers do require too much handholding. I do my best to screen them out by reading their reviews on Elance. I did lose time on 1 failed project in particular. I should have noticed sooner that the dev kept asking for more time and canceled it.
- jiggy2011 13y agoWhat do you define as "hand holding"? Often project briefs are not very detailed but the client's expectations are very specific. So in the interest of not wasting a load of my time writing code that I'm just going to have to redo I will ask a lot of questions. Even ones that seem obvious, as sometimes my idea of a the best way to do something was not what the client had in mind.
- jmadsen 13y agoExactly - I've never heard the term "hand holding" that didn't go along with, "You should be able to figure it out - it's a FB clone, for God's sake" "Real" development companies have full-time people writing specs - you need to come up with something better than a few Google docs if you want the dev to just run with it, especially if (s)he's on a fixed contract. Hourly, now, is a different animal :-)
- pjungwir 13y agoI don't know about the OP, but I took the term from the first image in the post that says "hold their hand." I agree that helping the client put together a decent spec does not mean I need hand-holding. If anything, it puts me more on the right side of that image. :-)