Hiring & Managing a Developer

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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