This week, Brad Touesnard joins us to discuss hiring developers, building and managing a distributed team, and more.
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The Core
- Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains
- WP Migrate DB Pro – for migrating WordPress databases, for freelance developers and agencies
- Apply Filters – WordPress development podcast, discussing what they’re working on and their challenges
- Big Snow Tiny Conf – ski getaway and conference for web business founders
- Hiring developers, from a developer standpoint
- Having another developer improves code quality, and allows you to focus on user experience
- Uses Authentic Jobs for finding developers
- Prefers to do interviews via instant message
- Now gives them access to current codebase and issues, as opposed to independent test projects
- Developers in New Zealand, UK, Canada
- Difficult to communicate in real-time, but can offer 24 hour support
- Tools: Trello, Slack, GitHub, HelpScout
- Twitter: @bradt
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:33 — 28.9MB)
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