Considerations on skills, teams and organization when delivering medical services using software and Internet

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1 Considerations on skills, teams and organization when delivering medical services using software and Internet Building a company with software inside and a powerful hack

2 I ll be talking about Bringing software to market Skills, resources and roles Growing your team intelligently Co-founders, employees or contractors How to use external contractors/outsourcing to your benefit What to do when you are short on resources Taking out a loan technical debt

3 Livatek introduction Futureproofing software development Development is in our own center in Kyiv, Ukraine home of the biggest talent pool in Eastern Europe for software development Geographical closeness (CET +1) Cultural compatibility Engagement model to suit reality Team extension and Managed Teams Supplementing client team with platform choice and architecture Facilitation on both client and team side

4 Start-up Financing Cycle Start-up Scale-up

5 Clinical research vision specs & UX Technical design Technical & project coordination Coding, design, testing

6 Two disciplines Strategic Tactical Operational Management Clinical research vision specs & UX Technical design Software Development Technical & project coordination Coding, design, testing Uniqueness High risk Execution Low risk

7 Growing your team Co-founder Employee External Co-founder Employ Contract/outsource Cost, upfront Low High (search) Low Cost, life time As high as it gets High Mid Flexibility Low Low Mid-high

8 What to do where? Management Clinical research vision specs & UX Technical design Software Development Technical & project coordination Coding, design, testing Manager Co-founder Business Analyst Software Architect Employment Team lead Scrum master External resources Programmer Tester

9 How to use external resources? Non-managed Managed Transaction Freelancer Upwork Project outsourcing S R S Long-term Team extension Self-managed team

10 Your role in successful outsourcing Management Clinical results and concept vision specs & UX Technical design Software Development Technical & project coordination Coding, design, testing Transaction Requirements Coordination Project outsourcing Freelancer Long-term Vision Requirements Self-managed team Team extension

11 A growth hack

12 Cost of change source: Rapid coding without testing Simple, test-driven designs Time

13 Avoiding Technical Debt Architectural choices Picking the right development languages and architecture Processes Integrate test and QA Formal task estimation Conduct frequent lessons learnt Development discipline Code conventions Unit test coverage Tools and infrastructure Shared code repository and task management Style checking tools

14 The burden of debt is interest Harder to maintain Harder to change Software risks (beware the creepy bug) Organisational and talent risk Increased costs Increased risk Increased risk

15 Hacking it Throw all rules out the window Do it in bursts, document corners cut and then clean up Obvious advantage Leap forward for product functionality Less-obvious advantages Team bonding Team gets to feel what it can achieve DEBT: do not forget to pay back fast!

16 Summing up Are you profitable? Do you have funds to burn? What kind of margin of error do you have? (future flexibility) How strategic is the skill? What does your labour market look like? Ease of finding skills Running costs Term of employment

17 Contact Jesper Lindholt Livatek A/S Lyshøjen 4 st th DK-8520 Lystrup dk@livatek.com Livatek GmbH Ericusspitze 4 DE Hamburg de@livatek.com

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