Your Extended Team

Best practices for Startups

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15 years of
software development US, Europe, South America, South Asia, Russia, Middle East

Toyota, Loreal, Black & Decker, United Nations Honda

20 years of
Managed portfolio of healthcare products generating 12 years in various $140 million Global Product in 3000 hospitals Marketing at GE Healthcare IT.

Product Development

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are strictly those of the presenter and based on his experience and research and do not reflect the opinions or endorsement of any organization, authority or entity.

1871 Member Won Innovation Award 2012

in long term care

Care Coordination Mobile and Web apps for healthcare

Offsite company

customer

3 Years

12 Years

Known benefits: You pay less for most experienced developers Your day is 28-48 hours of production time You can grow and shrink teams as business demands You can instantly replace under achievers

Other benefits Today software apps demand variety of technologies at different phases of your development. Jack of all trades developers are non existent.

In Chicago and elsewhere in US

Per hour wages

= Legit Developer $50-$100 Less than $50 = Not going to get moneys worth Less than $25 = Learning on your dime

Onsite US Team

$70 $50 $40

RoR Jquery Ajax QA

2 Months (320 hrs)

= $ 50K
Offsite Team
2 Months (320 hrs)

$30 $20 $15

RoR Jquery Ajax QA

= $ 20K

Onsite US Team

$70 $50 $40

RoR Jquery Ajax QA

2 Months (320 hrs)

= $ 50K
LT Offsite Team
6 Months (960 hrs)

$20 $15
RoR Jquery Ajax

$12
QA

= $ 45K

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Little bit of due diligence will help long way Check their Website, Twitter Facebook Press releases, Job postings Linked-in

Red Flags - Website

Development models

Agile process have three times the success rate of the traditional waterfall method and a much lower percentage of time and cost overruns.

The Standish Group defines project success as on time, on budget, and with all planned features.

Problem: Known
Solution: Known

Product Owner, In-house customer

Problem: Known
Solution: Unknown

Customer Discovery

Customer Validation

Customer Creation

Company Building

Problem: Unknown
Solution: Unknown

We want to do agile for startup

Because we want to control our development, discover and change d change requirements as business demands

We want to do waterfall
Because we like the fact that price is predictable.

Blended Approach
Pricing:
Development:

Waterfall
Agile Model

(Fix bid project)

(Sprints)

SPRINT-1 Release 1 Project

Initiation

SPRINT-2 Release 2

Project
Completion

Bugs Fix bid price (your cost) Cost to vendor

 AGILE PROCESS 1. USER STORIES 2. PROTOTYPE 3. Ui DESIGN 4. ARCHITECTURE 5. DEVELOPMENT + QA 6. UAT ITERATE

AGILE PROCESS 1. USER STORIES 2. PROTOTYPE 3. Ui DESIGN 4. ARCHITECTURE 5. DEVELOPMENT + QA 6. UAT ITERATE

Launch Prototype

AGILE PROCESS 1. USER STORIES 2. PROTOTYPE 3. Ui DESIGN 4. ARCHITECTURE 5. DEVELOPMENT + QA 6. UAT ITERATE

AGILE PROCESS 1. USER STORIES 2. PROTOTYPE 3. Ui DESIGN 4. ARCHITECTURE 5. DEVELOPMENT + QA 6. UAT ITERATE

Daily Meeting 10 minutes standup Video Conference Talk less, listen more Assist QA Ask one question: Are we on target?

Wireframe Tools

User Stories

Defects Management

Communication

 HIRE REMOTE TEAM

SO YOU CAN FOCUS ON

BUILDING THE COMPANY

AT A LOCATION

WHERE YOU HAVE

SOME CONNECTION

ADOPT BLENDED DEVELOPMENT MODEL

SO YOU CAN CONTROL BOTH COST AND PRODUCTION

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