How to Meet and Marry the Drupal Outsourcer of Your Dreams
Drupal outsourcers can be one of the closest relationships you can have with a vendor. Whether it’s a designer, themer or developer, you are trusting them to represent you and your company through their work.
In working with outsourcers from more than a dozen countries, I’ve learned that to have the best chance of success, it helps to treat outsourcing more like a relationship than a contract. In this session, we will go over some of the processes and tools that I’ve developed over the years for finding, evaluating, integrating and collaborating with Drupal outsourcers. We’ll discuss each stage in the outsourcing process:
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What Are You Looking for in a Relationship? Defining strategy and objectives.
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Who’s on the Market? Sourcing and tracking potential partners.
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Is S/He the One? How to know when you’ve made the right match.
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Your First Fight: Saving the day when things go wrong.
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Together Forever: Building a long-term partnership.
After the presentation, we will have plenty of time for discussion of attendee experiences. Everyone has challenges on the road to successful Drupal outsourcing - your best resource is the peers who have overcome these obstacles in their own businesses.