If you hire independent consultant or company, how’d you know they produce well solution/code for your SharePoint?
- What are the major concerns for you in that case?
- How do you make sure that custom solution well written?
- How do you test performance/hi-load of that solution?
- How do you make sure that custom solution won’t ruin your farm?
- Do you do a code review on the custom solution?
The reason to ask is that if I don’t work on the project from scratch, then I do work as a “firefighter” – I am fixing, refactoring, improving stability, performance and other things for the mess which has been “already done by other ‘good’ company”.
I am just quite shocked as in the most of the cases doubtful strategic decision produces an incredible snowball falling into such a terrible, unsupportable solution you might even imagine. What I can see is that quite often people even don’t know how to write pure c# code (logging, exaction handling, OOP or design patters), or don’t understand asp.net at all. But they “independed consultant/developer/or other sort of INTERNET GURU” 🙂
At the end, it comes to quite interesting experience and projects – “intranet remediation”, “fixing”, “fixing” and “fixing”.
So, how come? How’d you make sure that independent consultant or company produce well solution/code for your SharePoint?
I would also say, that this topic is not about technical stuff. This is more about decision making, influence and getting the right thing done.
The main concern is why questions in the topic are irrelevant for some companies/clients? This might be a good indication of the maturity of the company.
So, the problem actually is not about ‘technical stuff’, but the problem somewhere in the top-management-decision-making-chain?Â
