Ask HN: Advice on finding, selecting, and hiring contracted dev team
My company has a small in-house software dev team that (imho) works well, produces quality code and moves quickly. We are currently considering to roughly double our work load for ~9 months in order to ship a large feature set quickly. This obviously requires a larger dev team. Due to the temporary nature of the ramp up, we’re considering if using contractors might be a viable option.
No-one on our team has worked with or worked as contractors. Therefore, we’re a little nervous if this plan is a good idea.
Does anyone have any advice on working with a contracted dev team? I.e: - how to find such a team? - how to evaluate a team before hiring them? - best practices for working with a 1/2 in house 1/2 contracted team - for deliverables, do you want to receive the entire dev commit history or just the final HEAD of the code? - any caveats about our potential plan? Is it a bad idea? We’d rather it do the project if we can’t do it well.
Thanks in advance.