Outsourcing Practices for Guaranteeing Project Success
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What’s included
- 66 : Lectures
- 9h 26m 8s : Duration
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Introduction to the course (39 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Course Overview- 6m 54s |
| 2. What is outsourcing?- 6m 10s |
| 3. What you should outsource and what you should not- 11m 54s |
| 4. Planning your budget and estimating costs- 11m 57s |
Getting started (70 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Where to find outsourcing firms and freelancers- 7m 13s |
| 2. Introduction to Elance- 19m 13s |
| 3. Going further in-depth with Elance- 2m 26s |
| 4. Introduction to UpWork- 19m 21s |
| 5. Going further in-depth with Upwork- 5m 35s |
| 6. Introduction to Freelancer- 8m 44s |
| 7. Using alternative techniques and platforms to find contractors- 5m 22s |
Diving deeper (63 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Planning your subcontracting strategy- 8m 6s |
| 2. Deciding between a firm or a freelancer- 19m 34s |
| 3. Country profiles & how to pick your ideal combination- 18m 16s |
| 4. The relationship between Price & Autonomy- 7m 49s |
| 5. The Goldilocks syndrome- 7m 21s |
Posting expertise (67 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Writing a title that attracts the right bids- 8m 47s |
| 2. Hands on with writing titles- 12m 21s |
| 3. Writing the perfect description- 10m 48s |
| 4. Getting hands on with writing descriptions- 14m 53s |
| 5. Getting the settings right- 18m 45s |
Strategies for minimizing costs and time (54 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Rapid cycling posts- 4m 36s |
| 2. The $50 test- 3m 56s |
| 3. The "Keyer" question strategy- 7m 24s |
| 4. Repeating the project back to you- 3m 54s |
| 5. Getting them off the platform- 4m 4s |
| 6. The long term strategy- 5m 17s |
| 7. Using messaging to your advantage- 6m 57s |
| 8. Fixed rate vs per hour? Use our technique instead- 9m 10s |
| 9. The Specializations strategy- 6m 7s |
Best practices (74 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. 5 pillars for evaluating contractors- 16m 15s |
| 2. 6 red flags for contractors- 7m 33s |
| 3. How important is site reputation?- 4m 34s |
| 4. Understanding your response rate- 4m 22s |
| 5. How to handle extra work and specifications- 1m 52s |
| 6. What is good? Avoid this trap- 8m 45s |
| 7. How to treat referrals- 2m 58s |
| 8. Is outsourcing a long term solution?- 5m 39s |
| 9. Legality with outsourcing- 10m 39s |
| 10. Outsourcing & Protecting your IP- 8m 57s |
Documentation (98 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Creating an overview- 5m 35s |
| 2. Creating a functions list- 10m 13s |
| 3. Example: Creating our functions list- 10m 16s |
| 4. Adding pages- 19m 31s |
| 5. Creating the user section- 11m 7s |
| 6. Creating the parameters list- 10m 33s |
| 7. Adding comments- 2m 33s |
| 8. Intro to Balsamiq- 19m 31s |
| 9. Going further with Balsamiq- 3m 8s |
| 10. An example site made in Balsamiq- 3m 4s |
Selecting the right person (41 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. What to look for in their language- 9m 28s |
| 2. Further analyzing language- 13m 43s |
| 3. The response rate test- 6m 13s |
| 4. Dissecting their bid amount- 10m 51s |
Internal management skills (23 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Getting acquainted with Asana, the king of project management tools- 12m 10s |
| 2. Going further with Asana- 9m 46s |
Bug hunting (19 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Becoming a bug hunting master- 10m 48s |
| 2. Bug hunting on mobile- 4m 43s |
| 3. Some thoughts on bug hunting- 1m 23s |
| 4. TIP: Accelerate your testing this way- 33s |
Common scenarios and how to handle them (39 minutes)
| Lectures |
|---|
| 1. Low quality work- 5m 54s |
| 2. Missing Deadlines- 8m 1s |
| 3. Repeatedly missing bugs- 5m 51s |
| 4. They ask for money upfront- 4m 57s |
| 5. They bid and disappear- 3m 59s |
| 6. Contractor raises their price- 7m 49s |
