13 guiding rules for choosing a reliable Magento development partner.

1. Guiding
rules
for
choosing
a
reliable
Magento
development
partner
by
Dmitry
Martsinkevich

2. Let’s pay once again!
Clients with “redevelopment” requests
Large & small scale projects
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3. General advice
- do they track the bugs report
- do they use Agile and Scrum technics
- do they use SVN
- do they have continues integration
- do they write unit tests
- do they document the projects
- do they use internal wiki for complicated projects
- what kind of agreement about source code do they use offer
- check if they attend conferences
- do they read programming and management books
- do they comment their source code well
- do they have good customer’s references
- …
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4. Quality triangle
Quality
Price Time
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5. Quality triangle
Quality
Choose
two
Price Time
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6. How does Magento differ?
Compared to an average
PHP project on any other
platform
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7. - more sophisticated system
- modern programming technologies used
- e-Commerce system (selling function)
- high competitive market with many
“satellites” companies developing platform
add-ons
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8. Quality triangle
Magento situation
Quality
Price Time
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9. How to measure quality ?
Quality =
Experience
+
Development approach maturity
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10. 1. Compare your Magento
project to developer’s specialization
Here at aheadWorks, we classify Magento
projects using the following categories:
- Payments
- Shipping
- Product data
- Visual enhancements
- Checkout
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11. 2. Check the coding standards
You might experience problems when developer
rewrites core Magento source code. How to
avoid?
- check the extension code???
- check the extension forums for problems with
3rd party solutions
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12. 3. Check developer’s
extensions and templates experience
- Number of products
- If they developed extensions similar to the
ones used in your project
- Magento partners network
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13. Additional but not so important
- Extensions and projects on old Magento
versions
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14. Additional but not so important
- Number of certified developers
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15. Additional but not so important
- Support’s quality during the pre-sale stage
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16. Thank you!
If you have any questions or need help with Magento
developer, we would be glad to consult you!
Drop me a line:
Dmitry Martsinkevich
martinkevich@aheadworks.com