Wordpress Hotshot: How to Create Wordpress Plugins on a Shoestring Budget by Jason Fladlien

Author:Jason Fladlien [Fladlien, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

There you go. I’d basically copy and paste that to all 5 places and see who bites on it. Hiring The Programmer

The first thing you should know, is that on little $250 projects and under, we usually hire two or even three people to complete the same job. I’d rather spend $750 and have three people create something… Then I pick the best one… Than to be cheap with money but perhaps long on time.

However, you might not be in as fortunate a position to plunk down cash like that on a project. That’s okay. Here’re the next best things to do when hiring a programmer: 1. Negotiate The Price – whomever you think is good for the project, always come back with a counter offer on the project at a lower price. More often than not the expenses end up coming to more than you budget for anyway, so this is where you make it up.

2. Beware Of The Techy – programmers tend to talk in the codes they’ll use to program it instead of focusing on the end benefits. I don’t care if my programmers use ajax, jquery or php to do what I want my plugin to do. I just want whatever they choose to best solve the problem I’m aiming to solve. Good programmers think similarly and they’re worth their weight in gold!

3. Deadlines are jokes – it’s extremely rare any programmer meets the agreed upon deadline. Almost every single one of them goes over it. So you want to keep that in mind when picking your programmer. Also, negotiate the deadline as well, knowing this. Try to get them to shave a day or two (or more!) off the deadline, knowing full well it will probably be added back on anyway.

Working with the Programmer

Until you’ve done a few projects together with a programmer, you should require daily updates. I personally like 5 minute, once a day Skype meetings with my programmers.

We schedule a time to talk once a day for 5 minutes via Skype. Neither of us is allowed to go over that 5 minute mark. We get on the call and we cover three things: 1) what did you do yesterday, 2) what are you doing today and 3) are there problems you’re encountering and if so, how can we best solve them?

A neat tool you should consider using is http://leankitkanban.com/. This is where you list all the features of the project, and then the programmer grabs a feature from the “to do” column and puts it in the “doing” column. Then when it’s finished, he puts it in the done column and moves on to the next feature.

This not only gives you a snapshot at any time on how the project is progressing but also guarantees nothing gets forgotten or overlooked.

Now I’d like to pretend I could teach you everything about hiring and managing programmers here, but frankly this is something you’re just going to have to go out and get experience with. I’ve given you a good place to start though.

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