NYCPHP Meetup

[Kristina D. H. Anderson]

Anyone can go on Craig's List and find pages of "budget minded" people 
who are seeking skilled programmers for $10/hr.

Of course, one also sees the same people advertising months later 
for "market rate" programmers to fix whatever didn't turn out the way 
it should have in their $10-an-hr fantasy of an outcome.

Important skills needed to be successful in developing applications for 
business are: knowledge of business processes, various industries' data 
formats and tasks, how to interview the users in a way that lets them 
tell you what you need to know about what they want in an application 
even when they say they are "not sure", and just general exposure to 
and ability to glean the culture and language of, the environment you 
are coding for -- and these are the types of skills lacking in overseas 
development teams.

These are also the types of skills that developers taking on "mid 
sized" projects must have because there is no fancy business analyst in 
a suit to deal with these issues for you...

Kristina