Friday, June 19, 2015

We're adding In-House Development to Our List Of Services!

The best lessons are the ones that burn the most. My latest is a real doozy.

I was recently put through the ringer by a developer who insisted I create detailed requirements documents for every freakin' thing on my proposed site. How to login, what to data to collect, and what message to display when something went wrong. After a year and half of not getting anywhere, aside from really neat requirements documents, I fired the developer and went with another guy. The new guy didn't require a single document from me. He looked at images of what I wanted, asked I annotate some and took notes. A few weeks later he delivered a pretty close working beta that we used to fine tune the next set of notes he took.

Here's the difference, new developer asked why would I waste time developing such detailed requirements when he, like most developers, was going to use well-designed and well-tested plugin from a library of features, login included. He then showed me samples that allowed customization and included features neither one of us considered.

Bottom line and lesson I took, was find a developer who thinks like a startup. New guy wasn't interested in process, nor paranoid about finger pointing later. As a service-oriented developer, he took responsibility for documentation, a few hand notes and a drawing in this case, upon himself and started work immediately. It took us an hour to get requirements down and 5 weeks to deliver.

I've added new guy to my arsenal collaborators and now offer development work for your startup or growing business. From concept through web development, marketing and sales, we deliver. And we align all of this for maximum efficiency - saving you money and getting up and and running in a fraction of the time most others can.

So call us!

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