Executive Summary
It’s easy to say, “I have an incredible idea for an app!” but it takes a lot of determination, hard work, and knowledge to bring this plan into action. This shouldn’t stop you from pursuing your goals, though. You just have to put together the right development team. It’s not easy, but using proven strategies and techniques for building and managing dev teams will propel you to success.
Here is a simple, easy-to-understand but comprehensive whitepaper for startups, SMEs, SaaS enterprises, multinational companies, social enterprises, and NGOs.
Specific Topic
How to efficiently build and manage the right, complete, and fully-functional mobile, software, and web development team for your project.
Before you choose your team members, find time to study the project, particularly its scope.
The Challenges
If you lead or manage a tech development team, you know all too well that a complete, fully-functioning, results-driven, innovative, and efficient team is essential. With the right technical abilities, managing the team will be easy. However, if you don’t know what you’re doing or where your project is headed, leveraging your team to success will be difficult.
Know how to deal with the challenges of creating and handling a team of developers by learning everything that you can about them. Here are some of the vital ones you should keep in mind.
1. Lack of diversity in skills and interests.
Team members with similar skills and interests won’t do a lot of good for your mobile and web development projects. This will limit what the team can achieve, so it’s better to choose one with a diverse set of skills and interests. With this, collaboration and achieving the team’s goals are easier.
Before you choose your team members, find time to study the project, particularly its scope. This is the best way to determine which skill sets and interest will best benefit the team and project.
2. Unclear work purpose.
Team members who do not know and understand the purpose of their work won’t do any good for your project. Thus, it is essential to explain to each developer what their work goals are. Without proper knowledge and understanding of what their role or purpose is, developers cannot create the results expected from them. Thus, your projects will fail.
Find time to ensure that the team’s work purpose is clear and precise. Talk to each other about the collective goals. Make sure that everyone understands (and appreciates) individual and group responsibilities.
3. Unreliable technical project management.
A significant part of your project’s development phase depends on…