Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008)

Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008) by Justsignedup on Monday May 06, 2013 @09:07AM (#5662090)

anyone doing rent a coder should follow some oldie but goodie advice:

create a few small tasks to get started. rent out a few coders for a week. make all of them code the given tasks. pick the best quality and continue.

you will get good quality out bad, whatever you prefer... And waste little money.

the only flaw is if all the coders who are participating are not the quality you wanted.

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Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008) by twistedpair on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:16AM (#5662508)

And then you become the PM and integrator too? That overhead will start to stack up. Don't forget Brook's Law.

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Re:Rent-a-coder hilarity (2008) by willismichael on Monday May 06, 2013 @11:44AM (#5662947)

Sounds to me more like "throw away most of the initial work, keep 1-3 people that do the best work"

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