http://blog.flatsourcing.com Private Label Web Development Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:07:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We decided to start process of training our designers to create nice and fancy design mock-ups. Since our guys are working mostly on creating and fixing XHTML, we kind of lost the pulse of art-design and need to catch up. I assumed that the most efficient way of training would ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/08/28/plan-of-training-designers-in-office-part-1-art-design-simple-level/% Last week, I took a few minutes to post a piece on the 5 elements that make for a successful relationship between Flatsourcing and our clients. Most of the items in that list fell under the "common sense" category for anyone working with outsourced development resources. When I say outsourced, ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/08/20/top-5-reasons-flatsourcing-may-not-be-right-for-you/% After a recent call with a potential client I got to thinking about what makes for a successful Flatsourcing client. As with any business, there are great fits and not so great fits. Here are a few things that I have found make for a fruitful partnership between us and ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/08/12/top-5-reasons-flatsourcing-works/% At Flatsourcing we <3 Basecamp.  We've been using it for more than 3 years, and though we have migrated to more granular ticketing systems for development, we still host a lot of business & big picture conversations in Basecamp.  It is the tool we use to run our business internally ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/08/04/we-love-basecamp/% Ran across this really fascinating post, choosing the right business model,  from client and all around friend of Flatsourcing, Ryan Carson's blog and wanted to pass it along. We work with a lot of early stage start-ups, and while having a great idea is the certainly best place to start, it ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/08/03/beyond-dev-choosing-the-right-business-model/% As we here at Flatsourcing are big fans of GitHub and recommend it as our code hosting repository of choice for most clients, I thought it would be worthwhile to pass along some info on their 2009 contest. For your chance to win a bottle of 20 year old Pappy Van ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/07/31/got-git/% We're now trying to collect emails and dates of births of those who work within the company at least to congratulate them on birthdays with even more informal type of congratulations :) Stay tuned and let us know your contact info in case we ask, don't worry :) http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/07/31/new-nice-tradition-in-the-company/% In some recent calls with prospective clients I seem to have spent some extra time discussing the benefits of our decision to focus on the Agile Development methodology. More and more people are beginning to understand the benefits of agile versus the time and effort spent in the past focused ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/07/24/selling-agile-development/% http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/07/22/we-are-care-about-your-project-even-on-vacation/% BarCamp New Orleans was this past weekend and I decided to put a presentation together that gave people a look under the hood of Flatsourcing. One thing we are passionate about is having a great working relationship with our clients, and we know the key to success is communication.  We've built ... http://blog.flatsourcing.com/2009/07/21/flatsourcing-process-presentation-from-barcampnola/%