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How To Hire & ManageA Developer
Steve Zehngut@zengy
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Horror Stories
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Interviewing a Developer
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What is your hourly rate?
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How will my project be billed?Hourly or flat rate?
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Once my project launches,is there a maintenance fee?
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What is a typical project budgetfor your firm?
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Where does my project rank with the other projects on your
production schedule?
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Do you have the bandwidthto give my project theattention it deserves?
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What is your procedure when something goes wrong?
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What turn-around timeshould I expect?
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What is your process for bug reporting and bug fixes?
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What project management system do you use?
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Who will be my day-to-daypoint of contact within your firm?
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What version control systemare you using?
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Interviewing Techniques
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Planning
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“Bad planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine.”
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You can never over-plan.
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SOW
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Who owns the code?
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Project Management
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5:45pm EST
Steve-
Can you please change the design of our home page for a special promotion that we knew about weeks ago (but forgot to tell you about)?
We need it up by 8:00am EST.
Sincerely,The Client
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Project management system
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Communication
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Version Control
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WTF is a Code Repo?
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How does it benefit you?
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http://assembla.com (git, svn)http://beanstalkapp.com (git, svn)
http://github.com (git)
http://bitbucket.org (Mercurial)
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Bug Reporting
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Steve-
My site is broken.
Please fix it ASAP!
Sincerely,The Client
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Steve-
The About Us Page on my site is wonky.
Please fix it ASAP!
Sincerely,The Client
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Steve-
The Internet is down.
Please fix it ASAP!
Sincerely,The Client
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http://supportdetails.com
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
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Translating Geek Speak
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Steve Zehngutsteve@zeek.com
http://facebook.com/zengyTwitter: @zengy
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