fahad aziz and asif khan: extended teams 8-27-2012

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Introductions

Why remote hires for startups?

From Buenos Aires to Belfast to Lahore

How to make it work?

Recommended tools

Your Extended TeamBest practices for Startups


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15years ofsoftware

development

Toyota,

Loreal,Black & Decker,

United Nations

Honda

US,

Europe,South America,

South Asia,

Russia,

Middle East


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20years ofProduct

Development

12 years in variousGlobal Product

Marketing at GEHealthcare IT.

Managed

portfolio of

healthcare productsgenerating

million

in hospitals


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The views and opinions expressed in this presentation arestrictly those of the presenter and based on his experienceand research and do not reflect the opinions or

endorsement of any organization, authority or entity.


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1871 Member

Won Innovation Award 2012 in long term care

Care CoordinationMobile and Web

apps for healthcare


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Offsitecompany

customer

12 Years3 Years


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Known benefits:

You pay less for most experienced developers

Your day is 28-48 hours of production time

You can grow and shrink teams as businessdemands

You can instantly replace under achievers


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Other benefits

Today software apps demand variety oftechnologies at different phases of your

development.

Jack of all trades developers are non existent.


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$50-$100

Less than $50

Less than $25

= Legit Developer

= Not going to get moneys worth

= Learning on your dime

In Chicago and elsewhere in USPer hour wages


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RoR

Jquery

Ajax

QA

Onsite US Team2 Months (320 hrs)

= $ 50K

RoR

JqueryAjax

QA

Offsite Team

2 Months (320 hrs)

= $ 20K


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RoR

JqueryAjax

QA

LT Offsite Team

6 Months (960 hrs)

= $ 45K

RoR

Jquery

Ajax

QA

Onsite US Team2 Months (320 hrs)

= $ 50K


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I will treat extended team as core teamI will treat extended team as core teamI will treat extended team as core teamI will treat extended team as core team

I will treat extended team as core teamI will treat extended team as core teamI will treat extended team as core teamI will treat extended team as core team


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South America - Argentina

Eastern Europe Romania

Western Europe Northern Ireland

South Asia Pakistan


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time

difference

flight

time

average

hourly rate


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time

difference

flight

time

average

hourly rate


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Aine Mallaghant: (312) 955-0058

e: [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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timedifference

flighttime

average

hourly rate


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time

difference

flight

time

average

hourly rate


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Little bit of due diligence will help long way

Check their

Website,

Twitter

Facebook

Press releases,

Job postings Linked-in


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Red Flags - Website


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Development models


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Agile process have three times the success rate of the traditional waterfall method anda much lower percentage of time and cost overruns.

The Standish Group defines project success as on time, on budget, and with all planned features.


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Problem: Known

Solution: Known


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Problem: Known

Solution: Unknown

Product Owner, In-house customer


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Problem: Unknown

Solution: Unknown

CustomerValidation

CustomerCreation

CompanyBuilding

CustomerDiscovery


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We want to do agile for startupBecause we want to control our development, discover and change d changerequirements as business demands

We want to do waterfallBecause we like the fact that price is predictable.


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Blended Approach

ProjectInitiation

ProjectCompletion

Fix bid price (your cost)

SPRINT-1

Release 1

SPRINT-2

Release 2

Bugs

Cost to vendor

Pricing: Waterfall (Fix bid project)

Development: Agile Model (Sprints)


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AGILE PROCESS

1. USER STORIES

2. PROTOTYPE

3. Ui DESIGN

4. ARCHITECTURE

5. DEVELOPMENT + QA

6. UAT

ITERATE


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Launch

Prototype

AGILE PROCESS

1. USER STORIES

2. PROTOTYPE

3. Ui DESIGN 4. ARCHITECTURE

5. DEVELOPMENT + QA

6. UAT

ITERATE
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AGILE PROCESS

1. USER STORIES

2. PROTOTYPE


5. DEVELOPMENT + QA

6. UAT

ITERATE


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AGILE PROCESS

1. USER STORIES

2. PROTOTYPE


5. DEVELOPMENT + QA

6. UAT

ITERATE


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Daily Meeting


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HIRE REMOTE TEAM

SO YOU CAN FOCUS ON BUILDING THE COMPANY

AT A LOCATION

WHERE YOU HAVE SOME CONNECTION

ADOPT BLENDED DEVELOPMENT MODEL

SO YOU CAN

CONTROL BOTH COST AND PRODUCTION


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