Interviews with our two developer candidates are scheduled for next Tuesday. This is a fairly new experience for us and I’m hoping one or both of them are very good.
Adding new people is absolutely essentially, but it will kickoff a new round of activities including preparing the developer environment and ensuring that our requirements / wireframes and cards are ready for them. Our hobby+ approach has meant that things could be pretty loose thanks to it not costing much.
Now, these folks are paid by the hour so we’re going to have everything shipshape before they onboard. I’m an experienced PM and planner/organizer by habit so this isn’t a major deal for me. In fact, I’m excited because it means we can build out our work processes a little more.
I want to start codifying us doing wireframes / high-fidelity mockups first and deciding on the look before then drafting the requirements and breaking these out into story cards / test cases. This doesn’t sound revolutionary but right now things are a lot looser.
The new design should make us faster and put the creativity upfront with tools that are fast, rather than trying to do development to see what it looks like and then have to redo it. Again, this was sort of okay when we weren’t paying by the hour but soon – that’s just really expensive prototyping.
Let’s hope one of these interviewees are good so we can start evolving our work processes and ramping up development.