Outsourcing, Partners & Suppliers

@DaveParkerSEA

Agenda
Outsourcing Partners Suppliers

Writing Specs

Outsourcing
What is outsourcing
On-shore $50-$100/hour Off-shore $9-$20/hour

What can you outsource?

Prototypes Demos Screenshots Development Database Setup/Configuration

Hosting

Engaging Talent
How do you engage talent and wade into the market?

Partial Hours 3-8 hours a week

Little bit of Stock
Take 2% of your stock available 2 Basis Points (1% of company = 100 basis points) Couple Grow your fans, find your team Test the candidate

Little bit of Cash

Same as above

Who are you looking for?

Architects
Database Architects Information Architects

Design
Front End, HTML, PHP, Jscript UI/UX User Interface, User Experience

Marketing
SEO

Design & Development

Design Logo Website
Main page, Secondary Page, includes site look and feel

Development Backend Database Functionality Interactions with other systems

Registration Apps FB Apps Checkout, PayPal, commerce engine

Color Palette Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Front End

Java Script (J-script) Personal Home Page (PHP) HTML

Methodology
What is Methodology? Agile Software Development
Rigorous requirement, SCRUM Sprints

Extreme Programming
User stories based

Lean Methodology
Two week sprints

Scope
Create manageable projects Beware of Scope Creep (small)/Scope Leap (massive) Build to the scope dont do a rolling scope
Not every idea is a good idea!

If you need to modify complete small phases and revise

Specifications
Home page what is your call to action
Core content, clear value proposition CALL to ACTION

Outside of the App what content or pages are accessed w/o registration or password Registration page
What data needs to be captured? Payments necessary, FB registration

Inside App what happens after they register?

What can they do when they login?

Specifications, 2
Org Chart as a model

What are the process flows you want people to

follow Use Word
Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. to create links within documents to connect pages

Program in PowerPoint
Forward button = clicks on the site, what page should they navigate to?

Specifications, 3
Revision history, version, date, owner, track changes Purpose of the document, site, app? Define Terminology customer vs. user

API integration areas?

What systems do you integrate with? Facebook, Twitter?

Tools
PPT presenting to overview in a good process
Use static Screen Shots

Balsamiq prototyping Skitch screen capture, and annotation Snagit/Camtasia video capture and editing You, write the content in advance