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You think
you did the due-diligence in hiring and selecting the developer for your new
project, still the decision you made sucks! Where exactly you went wrong in
selecting the freelancer/web developer?
The
freelancer had 5 star feedbacks, raving reviews. Was that not enough for
selecting him?
My short
answer! NO – a Big No
So where did
you go wrong?
In my last
12 years of web development experience, I have come across many
opportunities where a client returned back to me. They hired me in the middle
of the project that is done unprofessionally by his original PHP developer. The
PHP web developer he hired couldn't understand the project requirement. Had no
motivation to understand, and thus instead of providing best possible solution,
he just wanted to get paid and be done with the project and with the client.
Not a healthy situation to be in.
Well my
client learnt the lesson and now ready to hire me!
So the next
question to ask is – why didn’t some client hire me in 1st place?
The short
answer – I asked too many questions.
I asked too
many questions before giving my quote and accepting the project. I made
absolutely sure that I understand the project requirements. I wanted to
consider all possible situations, features, functionality and the technologies
and also if 3rd party libraries (if any) required are available on hosting
server.
This
approach has many advantages for client and for me because it makes sure that
both client and I are on same page. I agree that this approach takes longer
time to get the project started and off the ground, however once the project
starts it gets delivered faster and smoother.
I will
detail all the advantages in my next article. However at this point I want to
let you know that this is the best way to decide on your next web developer. So
before you hire or select some web developer/freelancer on sites like
Odesk/Elance/Guru/Freelancer, make sure that the freelancer is asking you some
great questions and investing good amount of time to understand your needs and
has thought of all possible solutions before he is ready to take on your
project.
At GeeksPerHr.com, I have trained all my
developers to do the same. All developers are now experts in understanding the
client needs before they start the project or writing first line of code. It
has worked out great and main reason why so many web design companies, web
development companies that outsource their web development projects to GeeksPerHr.com love GeeksPerHr.com and her
developers.
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