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How to Get Your Idea Built:
Presented by: Rob Kaufman
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Finding the Right Dev for the Job
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Who is This Clown?
Rob Kaufman@orangewolfhttp://spkr8.com/s/7218
Founder of Notch8 - An App Development Consultancy since 2007
Co-Founder of LEARN Academy - A Web Development Bootcamp
Years of negotiating on teams with customers, clients and bosses
Still gets nervous every time he sends an invoice
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Development
❖ Can’t really build something you don’t understand
❖ Agile, Scrum, KanBan, Waterfall, Wireframes and friends
❖ Object Oriented, Functional, Imperative, Declarative, MVC, MVVM
❖ Frameworks (like Rails, Express, Spring, Zen)
❖ Is as much reading as it is writing
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So easy even a caveman could do it
It’s Simple!
Native Mobile Apps
Real Time Interactions
The 80/20 Rule
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The Soylent Green of Your Project
Developer Relationships
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Project Management Saying
“Fast, good, or cheap. Pick Two”
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Consultants
❖ Lots of experience
❖ Usually top 10% of the field
❖ Good Advice and Connections
❖ Fast and Good
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Consultants
❖ Expensive (not cheap)
❖ Set in their ways of working
❖ Hard to determine quality and consistency
❖ May get “done” with the project for various reasons
❖ Goal Alignment Questions
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Outsourcing
❖ Cheap and Fast
❖ Easy to find, always seem to be available
❖ Work super hard to make you happy
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Outsourcing
❖ Quality
❖ Communications
❖ Never say ‘no’
❖ Disappear on you
❖ Brain Drain
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CTO
❖ Goal Alignment
❖ Vision and Execution
❖ Voice of Experience
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CTO
❖ Hard to Find
❖ No really, so hard to find
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Junior Dev Only
❖ “Just find a young, smart kid to do all the work”
❖ Harder to find than a good CTO
❖ Often get in over their heads
❖ What could possibly go wrong?
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Upwork and Friends
❖ Grab Bag
❖ Hard to build a relationship
❖ Can be cheap, can be good, can be fast.
❖ Often not any of the 3
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How To Make It Work❖ Communication
❖ Meet frequently
❖ Use video and screenshots
❖ https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
❖ Use a task tracker
❖ Email sucks for threads and longevity
❖ Build a relationship
❖ Don’t pester… even when it is hard
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How To Make It Work❖ Plan the Right Amount
❖ Try and have 40 hours of work in the pipeline
❖ NOT MORE
❖ Use Wireframes and sketches over requirements documents
❖ Discuss how things connect
❖ Don’t be afraid to throw away code
❖ Don’t just start over “because”
❖ Separate budgets and velocities
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SHIP IT!
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is it over yet?
Questions
Rob Kaufman
@orangewolf
http://spkr8.com/s/7218
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