Best Practices: Working with Third-Party Designers
As you probably know, we’re big proponents of small tech businesses doing consulting work. Well, over the last six months, we’ve been putting that into practice, and at some point we’ll get around to writing up our experiences. For now, though, I’d like to talk a little about consultant best practices. We’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately regarding project management and how to streamline software development for our clients, and now that a medium-sized project has just wrapped up, a few thoughts have popped into mind.
Thus far, the majority of our clients have had us working with a third-party designer the client already has a relationship with (either they work for the company or were hired by them). We write the majority of the backend code for their project, and tie in the design work created by the designers to create the finished product. As we’ve progressed, we’ve come up with a few ideas that should help in these kinds of situations. This is a start, and I’d like to continue adding to these over time. Be sure to leave your thoughts.