Outsourcing Practices for Guaranteeing Project Success

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Introduction to the course (39 minutes)

1. Course Overview
6m 54s
2. What is outsourcing?
6m 10s
3. What you should outsource and what you should not
11m 54s
4. Planning your budget and estimating costs
11m 57s

Getting started (70 minutes)

1. Where to find outsourcing firms and freelancers
7m 13s
2. Introduction to Elance
19m 13s
3. Going further in-depth with Elance
2m 26s
4. Introduction to UpWork
19m 21s
5. Going further in-depth with Upwork
5m 35s
6. Introduction to Freelancer
8m 44s
7. Using alternative techniques and platforms to find contractors
5m 22s

Diving deeper (63 minutes)

1. Planning your subcontracting strategy
8m 6s
2. Deciding between a firm or a freelancer
19m 34s
3. Country profiles & how to pick your ideal combination
18m 16s
4. The relationship between Price & Autonomy
7m 49s
5. The Goldilocks syndrome
7m 21s

Posting expertise (67 minutes)

1. Writing a title that attracts the right bids
8m 47s
2. Hands on with writing titles
12m 21s
3. Writing the perfect description
10m 48s
4. Getting hands on with writing descriptions
14m 53s
5. Getting the settings right
18m 45s

Strategies for minimizing costs and time (54 minutes)

1. Rapid cycling posts
4m 36s
2. The $50 test
3m 56s
3. The "Keyer" question strategy
7m 24s
4. Repeating the project back to you
3m 54s
5. Getting them off the platform
4m 4s
6. The long term strategy
5m 17s
7. Using messaging to your advantage
6m 57s
8. Fixed rate vs per hour? Use our technique instead
9m 10s
9. The Specializations strategy
6m 7s

Best practices (74 minutes)

1. 5 pillars for evaluating contractors
16m 15s
2. 6 red flags for contractors
7m 33s
3. How important is site reputation?
4m 34s
4. Understanding your response rate
4m 22s
5. How to handle extra work and specifications
1m 52s
6. What is good? Avoid this trap
8m 45s
7. How to treat referrals
2m 58s
8. Is outsourcing a long term solution?
5m 39s
9. Legality with outsourcing
10m 39s
10. Outsourcing & Protecting your IP
8m 57s

Documentation (98 minutes)

1. Creating an overview
5m 35s
2. Creating a functions list
10m 13s
3. Example: Creating our functions list
10m 16s
4. Adding pages
19m 31s
5. Creating the user section
11m 7s
6. Creating the parameters list
10m 33s
7. Adding comments
2m 33s
8. Intro to Balsamiq
19m 31s
9. Going further with Balsamiq
3m 8s
10. An example site made in Balsamiq
3m 4s

Selecting the right person (41 minutes)

1. What to look for in their language
9m 28s
2. Further analyzing language
13m 43s
3. The response rate test
6m 13s
4. Dissecting their bid amount
10m 51s

Internal management skills (23 minutes)

1. Getting acquainted with Asana, the king of project management tools
12m 10s
2. Going further with Asana
9m 46s

Bug hunting (19 minutes)

1. Becoming a bug hunting master
10m 48s
2. Bug hunting on mobile
4m 43s
3. Some thoughts on bug hunting
1m 23s
4. TIP: Accelerate your testing this way
33s

Common scenarios and how to handle them (39 minutes)

1. Low quality work
5m 54s
2. Missing Deadlines
8m 1s
3. Repeatedly missing bugs
5m 51s
4. They ask for money upfront
4m 57s
5. They bid and disappear
3m 59s
6. Contractor raises their price
7m 49s