Podcast: | (Duration: 51:44 — 71.0MB)
Panel
- Charles Max Wood ( )
- Eric Davis ( )
- Evan Light ( )
- Jeff Schoolcraft ( )
Discussion
- Subcontracting programming
- Assistants
- Subcontracting design
- Communication breakdowns
- Screening Processes
- CSS
- Mac App Development
- Chop-chop
- Pair programming
- Subcontractors talking directly to the clients
- Desired attributes of a subcontractors
- Can work remotely without supervision
- Reliability
- People you already know
- Great communication skills
- Problems that can crop up with delivery
- You are responsible for your subcontractors’ work (including the screw ups)
- Have a contract
- Communicating with subcontractors
- Chiliproject
- Skitch
- Skype
- CloudApp
- Pivotal Tracker
- Dropbox
- Balsamiq Mockups
- AIM/iChat
- TeamViewer
- Join.me
- Screenflow
- Tracking Subcontracting Time
- Harvest
- Freshbooks
- Billing for the subcontractor’s time
- Hourly with a rate markup
- Hourly with no markup
- Hourly under a fixed bid project
- Passing along subcontractor’s invoices included with your invoices
- Including subcontractor’s time on your own invoices
Picks
- (Evan)
- (Eric)
- (Chuck)
- (Chuck)
Book Club
We’re reading and will be talking to C.J. Hayden at the beginning of July.
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Another fine show!
I would have enjoyed more discussion about the types of tasks you tend to use subcontractors for, and just a little more in depth on the nature of the arrangement. (eg. how detailed are the requirements you give them, do you go over test cases, etc.)
I’m at that point where I have more work than I can handle, but I’m also not sure about how to find good subcontractors, and manage them. (especially knowing that it will initially decrease my velocity to bring them on board)
@John: Good point about how much management subcontractors need. It probably depends on the project but we might be able to share. I seem to recall Jeff or Evan using pair programming on some client projects (can’t remember exactly).