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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. The translator rejects or approves.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. And projects dont have quality per se.