46. Criteria to use when picking a freelancer
• Experience
• Portfolio
• Attitude
• Time zone
• Infrastructure (electricity + internet)
• Language
• Cost
• Availability
• Commitment
50. Contracting/Outsourcing Steps
• Document your requirements
• Document communication tools and norms
• Deadline
• Cost
• Get approval
• Follow-up (1 time/3 days)
• Testing (Document found bugs)
• Payment after getting client approval
• Delay part of it if there are other developers are going to build upon it
52. Low quality work
• You only pay if you're satisfied
• Steps :
• Get him to understand what he’s doing wrong
• Let him try again
• Same result ? don't agree to the next milestone, get another freelancer
53. Missing deadlines
• Pre-action: including consciences in your contract
• Post-action:
• Specify new deadline
• If it’s Possible ? Use intensive follow up plan (at least 1 time/day)
• Not possible ? It’s your fault, you should be able to predict that
54. Bugs never get fixed
• They may don't understand what you're talking about
• You need to explain more details
55. Reverse delegation
• Tier 1: Don’t accept it
• Tier 2: guide him
• Tier 3: delegate to other team member
• Tier 4: outsource/do it
57. They bid then disappear
• Don't pick only one person to discuss with; You could end up wasting
time
58. Contractor raises their price
• As they get more popular, they will raise their price
• Explain to them why your budget is limited
• Offer long term work
• Finally: Take it or leave it
Editor's Notes
الاوتسورسنق هو انك تعمل توكيل لاحد خارج بلادك للقيام بعمل ما بالنيابة عنك
لو اخدت شغل وسلمتو لحد جوات البلد هاد بسما كونتراكتنق.. يعني لما شركة محلية عندها مشروع وبدها شخص يشتغل عليه فتروح تجيب شخص تتعاقد معو.. هاد يسمى كونتراكتنق مش اوتسورسنق..
لو عندي مهام كتيرة فبدي حد يعاوني
Anything take long time from you
اعمل اوتسورس افضل من انك تخسر زبون
غالبا الناس اللي ممتازة ما هتلاقيها فاضية وبتتفاعل مع البوستات اللي بتنزل عالقروبات لانو دايما عندو شغل ومش كتير فاضي.. فان انا معني بناس مميزة ممكن اسألWho is referring them? Do you trust that person?
Ask him about example ? Cost details ? Any issues during the project
لو ما اندليت ممكن انزل عالقروبات واطلب اللي مهتم يراسلنيمثلبدك أي تي مان
Freelance groups
More information help you filtering them and discourages unexperienced people to apply
• If people see you put effort in your description, they will also put effort in their bid
Adding perks - you can add "small", "quickly", "short project", "simple"
Why do freelancers like long term?
Not only it means more money, it's that they spend less time searching for projects and clients
If you need it fast, put “ASAP” or “Right now”. If you don't put that, people will bid and then leave
Change and description before posting the job again
Divide out your project into sections then ask them to give an estimate for each section (time and money)
Invite freelancers to bid. You will increase your chance to get a suitable freelancer
Hire different people for each part, they will be specialists in what they do and save you a lot of time and money
Add your team to group chat. You have to make sure everybody is synced with the others and on the same page
You are a client, not a freelancer. Even worst client find freelancers who would like to work with him
Outsourced developers will need more documentation (good/nice design is relative)
Divide your project into segments and make a payment per each section of work
Developers are very literal when they look at specification sheets, if you don't list something out, they will think that's not needed
Fixed if you know exactly what you want (like logo)
Hourly if no one want to take the project
"Hourly" - it means they get paid no matter what, less risk involved
Hybrid when you are not sure about project requirements and scope
Hybrid : Ask them about their hourly rate, then get it lower as possible.. Then work as fixed price project.. Any future requests will be in same hourly rate
If you delay, the other person will match that delay
You can't blame the freelancer if he don’t submit the work before the deadline
ممكن يكون الكوالتي في البورتفوليو كتير عالية وانا عارف انو مش ممكن يكون هاد المشتغلها فببحث وبتاكد هل هاد شغلو ولا لا..
ممكن البورتفوليو تاعو يكون في اعمال بمستوى عالي واعمال بمستوى ضعيف فبعرف انو ممكن يكون بانيها على توتوريالز او بكورس او بشركة بمساعدة زميلو بالعمل..
لا تتعامل بكل مرة مع واحد جديد، حاول تلاقي واحد تعتمد عليه ويصير فاهمك وانتا فاهمو وابني علاقة ثقة بينكم .. هتاخد ديلز افضل هيك
قد يكون بسبب انو المشروع طلع اكبر مما يتوقع، او انتا حطيت كلام عام وهو انصدم بالتفاصيل المطلوبة