Comments on: Building a Team With Inexperienced Online Freelancers http://gigaom.com/collaboration/building-a-team-with-inexperienced-online-freelancers/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nashat http://gigaom.com/collaboration/building-a-team-with-inexperienced-online-freelancers/#comment-85396 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:06:45 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=15945#comment-85396 Thank you for the tips celine. I think the article is very informative regarding communication and exchanging information. You have mentioned many issues that i had been facing.

]]> By: Dave Churchville http://gigaom.com/collaboration/building-a-team-with-inexperienced-online-freelancers/#comment-85395 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:10:35 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=15945#comment-85395 Celine, thanks for the tips.

Even when working with more experienced freelancers, I think many of your tips apply – setting clear expectations and discussing how you like to communicate and exchange information (e.g. through a project management tool, IM, email, etc.).

We use our own collaboration software to work with freelancers, and the fresh perspective they bring when interacting with our software has definitely been a nice side benefit.

]]> By: Keoz http://gigaom.com/collaboration/building-a-team-with-inexperienced-online-freelancers/#comment-85394 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:04:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=15945#comment-85394 I’m actually working as freelance because of no technology adopters in my country, I’d like in the future to build a team like this offshore and using the technology to work and communicate, I really believe is counter-productive, more expensive and without a real foundation having a physical office on an IT enterprise, it’s obsolete and more stressing, the future is the home office not only on IT but in some other areas, thanks to messaging and logistics technologies, nice tips it this article :) regards

]]> By: Paul Jackson http://gigaom.com/collaboration/building-a-team-with-inexperienced-online-freelancers/#comment-85393 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:02:40 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=15945#comment-85393 Hi Celine,
This is a really interesting and useful article and something many micro ISVs face every day. In our case, we don’t have our own team of on-site developers, but instead work with distributed teams, using Agile software development methods. In particular, you raise a number of issues that I certainly empathise with; strong and regular communications are key, easy to use tools and simple processes are important and keeping it simple in the early days. I’ve written a few blogs in a similar vein; here’s one that I’d like to share which I hope will add to the debate: http://blogs.sixninjas.com/paul15/?p=65

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Regards,

Paul

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