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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. Tom Nora.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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We run a company in Philippines that helps people hire developers at reasonable prices. Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language.