Project-Based Hiring - Agile

1. Reduced Cost - If you are from a country where the cost of labor is significantly higher than in India, with us,  you are likely to get better developers at 1/5th (or even less) price.
2. Reduced Headache - Running an in-house team does not only add 5 times but a lot of headaches too.  Here you will not have to bother about the recruitment, HR activities, operational processes, office management, hardware, and software, etc. You can simply concentrate on your project only. 
3. Expert Overnight - It takes years to build an organizational knowledge base over the software development process for an organization. We are in the industry for over 20 years. The moment you choose us as your development partner you can claim that your team is backed up with 20 years of experience.  
4. Ready Platform -  We will give you free access to our end-to-end software development cum agile team management platform. There you can see the full picture of the team activity or project development progress or software documentation required for future maintenance. 

Freelancer hiring often looks lucrative. But you may have to spend a lot of time getting reliability from a freelancer because of some inherent problems. Here are those.

1. Uncertain -   Most freelancer works fulltime somewhere and you do not know when he will be suddenly off to save his permanent job. You do not know when he/she will leave.  If you hire him/her even dedicated, there is every chance he will have to continue to support other clients. You do not know when he will get a better deal and leave you.
2. Unsafe - Your codes, data privacy, and IP rights may not be in a safe hand.  There is a possibility that your code / IP rights are being re-used in other projects, particularly when a freelancer leaves.  You can never catch a freelancer.  An ethical company never does it who thinks long term. Employees working for a company do not dare to do it because of legal action.
3. Limited Talent -  Software development is teamwork. Building a professional application that will provide value to its customers requires many experts. An architect, analyst, server admin, designer, developer, test analyst, etc. It is never possible to get someone with the skills required to play all these roles. So other than developer skill you will have to compromise. With a company like us, you can hire them on an SOS basis and pay only for limited hours. In fact, for the smaller issue, the help comes absolutely free.
4. Dead End -  With a freelancer, your growth option is a dead end. Initially, you may start with something small a developer might be apparently sufficient for you, but soon your application may become bigger and more complex. You may need help from experts or new resources. A freelancer will pull you back.
5. No Organisational Tracking - We have an organizational tracking system. We will do the activity tracking, work tracking on your behalf, and rectify in the background to yield greater output. If you hire a freelancer you might have to hire another manager (or spend a lot of time of yours) to track him.
6. No Organisational Knowledbease - We are in web application development since 1999.  We have several people who are in the organization for more than 14 years. We know more than a freelancer what works and what does not work. You will lack it when you hire a freelancer.
7. Knowledge Transfer Crisis - A developer may leave. Whether you hire from us or hire a freelancer.  And the worst situation normally comes when he/she leaves. When a freelancer leaves you to have to manage the knowledge transfer yourself. It may not be possible for you.  But we will easily manage it. The scrum master will have a high-level knowledge of the system.  Plus we have a standard documentation process to transfer it to a new developer.  

1. Product owner - Says the final word on any requirement issue
2. Scrum Master - Responsible to solve any problem that slows down the development.
3. Team Members (Development Team) - They actually executes the tasks. Contact product owner on any requirement point and contact scrum master if faces any roadblock. Developers, designers, testers, etc.
4. Stakeholders - They actually do not belong to the team but somehow will be benefited from the system.  Example: final clients, shareholders, etc.

1. Concept building - Define the value and value stream. Value means what unique benefits will cheer users and value stream refers to the processes associated with it.  The product owner will define mainly on three points -
   1. what to build
   2. how will it work
   3. how it will benefit the stakeholders
2. Prioritize - As per product development dynamics 20% of features adds 80% values. So it is important to choose the top 20% features for phase-1 development. In phase-2 choose 20% of the rest 80% features and so on.
3. Create the Task Backlog - Once the top 20% features are decided the next step is to create a backlog of the tasks. The phase 1 product will be developed once tasks will be completed.  All features may not require fresh development.
4. Establish the development process & feedback loop- Just plan how the will project is completed. How much to develop, how much to buy. Decide the technologies and platforms. Decide how the system will work and architect accordingly.  Decide the tools and techniques for requirement development, modeling,  testing, project management, and so on. Develop a closed feedback loop with the stakeholders/team members.
5. Develop each in the agile process - Simply pick a feature, develop/customize it, test it, deliver it for feedback, and improve the feature as per stakeholders’ feedback. Mark them as done once accepted. Repeat the cycle until all features are done.
6. Launch the PHASE-X - Once all done launch it and monitor in production- preferably through telemetry. Fix/implement any reported error or improvement. A continuous improvement process.
7. Next Phase Development - Choose the next top 20% features for development. And repeat the cycle.

We have an automated agile project management system (Agile24) to manage the team management processes. We will not mind using 3rd party software like Jira too if you prefer.

1. Create a Team - The administrator of the project management software will do it for you. A team must have a product owner, a scrum master, and members. Members can be added or removed when necessary.
2. Create a Product - The product owner creates a product that is to be built. The proposed system is considered to be a product. It will be there until the product is removed from the market. The product owner defines it in terms of features and stories (functionalities).
3. Create  Projects - The scrum master creates one or more projects to build the proposed system when the project. One phased development can be considered a project too.
4. Create Backlog - Once the product concept is built and the features to be developed in a particular project are decided,  the ScrumMaster and product owner jointly create the backlog of the tasks that project. All stories are converted as tasks. Apart from stories, there can be other tasks too - general tasks, test runs, test suites, test runs, defects, etc.
5. Create Sprints - The ScrumMaster does a rough estimation of the full project and full development time is divided into manageable chunks with a fixed duration (say, two weeks or 1 month). Tasks are moved to sprints as per priority. Many tasks may not be moved will lie in the unscheduled backlog.
6. Assign Tasks - Now the ScrumMaster assigns tasks to members considering the availability and capability of the developers / other resources.
7. Sprint Meeting - A meeting is done to convey the sprint objective and decide the gameplan to complete the tasks of the sprint.
8. Daily Scrum - There will be a fixed time when all members of the DEV team will meet together to discuss just 3 points. What was done yesterday? What is to be done today? What are the impediments that slow the development process? The work plan of the day is planned accordingly.
9. Execute Tasks - The members execute their duty as planned. The product owner must be available to remove the impediments related to the requirements. Everyday a scheduled meeting with the product owner is recommended to avoid any sort of technical debt.
10. Day end work entry -  Everyone makes work entry - what has been done today along with time to track hours to complete each task.
11. Test, Review, and done - The initially done work is tested by the developer first and then reviewed by the product owners/scrum master. It may further undergo testing by testers as the situation demands. Once passed it is marked as passed.
12. Sprint Retro Meeting- Everything cant goes well. In the sprint end, a blameless meeting is done to review what went wrong and what right. Then ScrumMaster takes action to repeats that went right and avoid that went wrong.
13. Analyze Reports -  An automated delivery report for a specific duration available for the team/user/project to assess the ground reality.  Work reports are available for further analysis.  Estimate change reports are available to determine when and how a project is delayed.

Note ** -  Cost will vary  with the technology, skill level, and order volume

Note ** -  Cost will vary  with the technology, skill level, and order volume