One respondent on our survey asked the question:
Would the work get subcontracted out to an offshore body shop or would the entrepreneur have access to the peeps working on the idea via daily scrums?
This triggered a longer conversation between Kyle and I last night, mostly because we saw this drifting into a territory of: we are not a mobile consulting shop. Instead, we deliver a tightly defined prototype displaying the “secret sauce” of your business idea. The idea is that you can then present it to funders to get funding, to build out the real product. Or, you can use it to get your customer base to follow a path of Lean Development/Customer Development.
We create, for you, an operational, functional, live (in store/play) mobile app. It’s not going to have all the features you want. It’s not going to be entirely what you want, but it will be out there, getting users for your business idea. It’s a start.
To specifically answer the respondent: you can contact me any time during the project. Kyle and I, and other team members, either remote or local, do daily scrums at 11am to discuss our tasks, and organize yourselves. You can be in on those if you want. We don’t like tasks to go directly to engineers, we like to flow it through the process, which is very tightly controlled, which is how we deliver so quickly. We may or may not hire contractors to help out from other countries. Some are offshore, some are in the Americas, some are (gasp) in the South Bay! Since we charge project cost none of those issues should effect you.
