Doina Leca, CEO Blogant, shares her knowledge on how they build a team (in a city with more outsourcing offices than developers). During 9th #pivorak, Lviv Ruby MeetUp

1. Building a team
in a city with more outsourcing offices than developers

2. What?
• July 2015: A team of three could not build a product, nor afford to
hire developers.
• February 2016: A team of nine building and marketing a product.
And never actually hired developers.

3. Who?
• data analyst
• accountant
• call center employee selling airplane tickets
• holder of a degree in mathematics
• technical support officer
• freelance photographer and journalist
• two students in their final year of study at an IT faculty

4. How?
• Culture of learning
• Required skill: ability to learn
• Grow into the position you want to have
• Be available to share your knowledge
• The 1 / 10 / 100 hours principle
• What would you like to do? What you need?
• How can you fit into the team?
• Is this what you wanted?

5. Who else?
• Graduates of technical universities, not IT faculties
• Theoretical mathematics
• Nuclear physics
• Mechanical engineering
• Those who want to switch careers
• Taken steps towards it
• Learned something new

6. How to reach them?
• Guest lectures at universities
• Hackathons
• Public lectures in schools
• Programming course – Rails Girls
• Host GSoC or RGSoC students in your office
• Moldovan and Ukrainian summer of code
• Seed early
• Talk today with the experienced you will work with in four years

7. 1 / 10 / 100 hours
• One hour of work
• Ten hours of work
• 100 hours of work

8. 1 / 10 / 100 hours
• One hour to give a direction
• Ten hours to give a tool
• One hundred hours to get comfortable with the tool