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Name
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23. Sultan Event Acquisition Process
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Resolve discrepancies Reviewable
and Event
Approve
27. Identify workers
Communicate and motivate workers
Fine tune price
Keys
33. Outsourcing on oDesk
Creating a Worldwide Team
Phil Ives
April 20, 2010 @ Philly Startup
Leaders
34. Process for oDesk Projects
• Define value of in-house staff – stick to it
• Scope Small
• How to hire… or how I learned to
understand the NCAA tournament seeds
• Trust, but verify
• Build a real team, get related
• SCR-AGILEo – My day to day process
36. Define Value in the process
• Hard • Harder
– Define your and local Stick to what you said
staff’s value. When timelines slip…
– What can’t be stick to what you said
outsourced? When people turnover…
– If you don’t have know.. stick to what you said
better rethink your
career
38. Scope Small
• Scope early and often
• Keep tasks small for accountability
• Check in with the freelancer early and
often
39. How to Hire
• What’s your time worth?
• What would an interview process on
email and annoying Skype give you?
• Why would you do that to yourself?
• Hire 2x - 3x actual need and weed out.
40. Trust, but Verify
• Like anything important to your business
– Verify that work is correct and complete
– Create tests and validation procedures
– Spot check
– Use the tools you have: Team Room, Bugzilla,
Skype
– Have a conversation….
41. Build a Team
• Really, they aren’t actually “mechanical”
• Manage them like your local team
• Use the technology to have conversations
• Get acquainted: Who are they / what goals?
• Where possible, let them create from
nothing
• Inspire them with the goals of your project
42. SCR-AGILEo
• Loose agile process
• Daily Check-in
• Timelines, coordinate time of days
• Don’t work with consultants who can’t
work on your schedule - make them
stick to it.
• Iterate both the product and your
process for managing it