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What to look for when hiring a development team
When planning to hire a development team for your business, it’s important to make sure you’re bringing on the right people with the right skills to help you reach your goals. Below are 10 attributes that teams should have in order to be effective and successful in their endeavors. These attributes should be divided and evaluated for each member of the development team to make sure you have the right people and skills that will fit your company.
1.Code is not a religion and it doesn’t have to be one.
“Coding” is no more than the act of applying algorithms and algorithms and algorithms until something works. Being the “cool kid” with an “interesting problem to solve” doesn’t make your code better, or even necessary. Coding culture in technology companies is often based on ideologies that are very rigid, and you can find some developers with a very strong belief in one specific paradigm of development – this can be detrimental to your overall team culture.
2.Be able to communicate your vision and progress.

How to manage and work with a development team
As a business owner, you will be required to wear various hats and perform various tasks to keep the business moving forward. The often overlooked area of running a business is the development team or team of developers or engineers that build the product or service you and your customers use.
It’s very common in the software development community to build great software with a small team (no more than 5) by relying on peer reviews and code reviews. These concepts work fine and are sometimes necessary, but if you’re a new business, you probably do not have any of the softer skills required to build a high quality product. As your business grows, it is important to hire developers who possess these soft skills so they can accelerate your growth and add value to your product while they learn on the job.
Are You Ready For The Growth?
To manage and work with a development team, you will need to develop a thorough understanding of your product’s business model and the way it is intended to be used. If you do not know what the product is supposed to do, how it will benefit your customers or key stakeholders, or if you don’t have experience building products that overcome common problems like search, social media logins or marketing campaigns on the web, then hiring developers will be difficult at best.
The best way to hire these developers is to have specific entry level requirements that they must meet, skills that they need to develop and an idea of where your product is going. If you hire the wrong people, it will only take a short time before they start showing signs of unhappiness and you will quickly lose them and their skills. When the following happens:
Their productivity decreases as compared to their peer company or peers at other companies.

Tips for working with a remote development team
When building a product, it is important to work with a development team who are both geographically and time zone-independent. One common mistake that business owners make is hiring teams based solely on their location and the time zone in which they live. This isn’t particularly effective for the following reasons: 1) it creates scheduling conflicts by having team members meet at different times and 2) it’s a waste of time because a great developer is not the same as a great teammate.
A great developer is not the same as a great teammate
A great teammate has the ability to work with someone they don’t really like. They are professional and they understand the importance of both 1) building in value and 2) building a relationship through trust that allows both of them to grow together. It is important to keep this in mind when building your team.
1) building in value

Things to consider when outsourcing web development work
When an organization decides to outsource web development work, it is important to strike the right balance between an appropriate amount of oversight and an acceptable level of autonomy for the team you hire. It is critical that the participants in this scenario have clearly defined roles, and understand those roles. The client or business owner should know the details of what they want, and the job of the project manager or the web development team is to deliver the product. If a lot of the timing and details are in the client’s hands, then it requires a lot of oversight. If far-reaching decisions are being made by the client, then you must use more control mechanisms to make sure they get what they need. The latter usually involves more expense and/or burnout on the team, as well as less innovation and fun for both parties.
This article aims to highlight how the team should balance oversight and autonomy with the end product the client is requesting. This may be a new site for a small business, or a large scale custom e-commerce system for an enterprise. It may be creating an entire new application from scratch – or merely performing upgrades or tweaks on an existing piece of software.
Before any development gets underway, it is essential to understand what the client or business owner wants. This helps ensure that the project proceeds in an efficient manner and is properly funded. There are several common examples where this does not always happen.
