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Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Hiring a Dedicated Development Team

Read the below mentioned list of mistakes to avoid it in the future

By BacancyPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Nowadays, every company has a dedicated team of developers to make their apps feature-rich and user-friendly and save time. But many problems occur if the hired dedicated development team does not work according to the product's requirements. All companies must hire a dedicated development team so that the websites or mobile apps built for the company will attract customers and give excellent results in the future.

While hiring a dedicated team of developers, you should try to avoid the mistakes mentioned below:

1. Prioritizing Price over Value

Many entrepreneurs choose offshore companies just because they serve at lower prices. But it would be best if you kept in mind quality matters over quantity. So try to select the development team as per skills and quality of work they do instead of concentrating on their prices. This will benefit you in the future when you get reliable, productive, and functional products made by dedicated developers.

2. Not Validating the Skills of a Team

When you hire a team of developers, you should continuously interact with them to understand their work patterns. When you interact with them, they will also understand your project requirements and work according to them. Every entrepreneur should avoid this mistake and always try to communicate with the developers and check on the work they are doing.

3. Choosing a Company without Studying Media Space

Whenever you decide to hire a development team before finalizing, you should always review and verify their credentials. Many companies hire the offshore development team without checking how they work and with whom they worked in the past. Avoid this mistake and always check the company's public reviews on websites like Clutch, Good firms, and many more.

4. Extra Geographic Restrictions

When you are looking to hire a dedicated development team, do not limit yourself to geographic locations and always go for the right developers.

5. Micromanaging the Team

When you hire a dedicated development team, always keep in mind that micromanagement will cost you damage, and so try to avoid getting too peculiar with the team management.

6. Lack of Required Technology

When you hire developers make sure they are just not the technical experts but have all the knowledge they require for working in a specific technology; otherwise, the result will not meet upto your expectations.

7. Desire to Work only at a Fixed Price

Every project has different requirements, and so the prices cannot remain fixed. So, entrepreneurs should avoid keeping their price fixed because it won't justify big projects requiring minor modifications, edits, and changes until the end time.

8. Speed Thrills but Kills

When you are looking for a development team, you must adequately examine all the companies and see which companies offer to deliver your project in a reasonable time-frame, do not get lured by the offers of developing a project in very little time.

9. Not taking Proper Interview of the Development Team

Do not be lazy and do proper research when looking to hire a dedicated development team. It would be best to do adequate research, and you should take interviews before hiring to get a good development team.

10. Not Presenting a Clear Vision

When you hire a dedicated development team, do not keep things and stuff upto yourself; share the company goals and ideas with the team to do a successful project.

How will a Dedicated Team Model work for you?

Everyone is new to the concept of working with a dedicated offshore team so let us discuss the points about how it will work:

  • Establish work procedure
  • Respect Professionalism
  • Organize scheduled stand-ups
  • Leverage the use of tools
  • Provide feedback

Conclusion

To conclude, you will get success if you keep in mind these ten mistakes that you should avoid when you hire Dedicated Development Team from offshore. Be aware of all the fraud companies, and before hiring, do proper research of the companies.

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Bacancy

A Leader in Agile and Lean Software Development

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