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True. 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
by trevmckendrick 13y ago
True. 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. :-)