Development, Coding, Management and Cultures

After three months of super fast development to get our product up and running it is now time to do major bug tracking organizing code and documenting the system.

We have been working hard to get where we are but also see still some bugs in the technology and we need to reorganize and do a spring cleaning of the servers. The type of rapid development we do has advantages and also its disadvantages. In order to develop fast we have implemented a couple of  “Gung Ho” tactics. These allow us to speed things up but also means we need to control things pretty tight. QC is key in this part of the development process and this is one of the reasons  why Marco joined our team.

Being a very talented and experienced programmer Marco is doing an audit of the code and assisting Tommy and me to clean and reorganize.

Working with people in different places all over the world is always interesting especially to see different programming methods. An advantage of this is that we can see the positives and negatives of both cultures and learn how to manage these in different ways. Learning to develop fast and hard in China to get our system ready for sales, using the expertise and knowledge of an experienced programmer like Marco to identify key pieces of our code and database will tweak our system and make it more efficient and scalable for the future.

So now we have people working in Finland, The Netherlands and China with people offering to help us sell in Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and the US. And with people working in the Philippines is is starting to become an interesting and complex project to manage.

This means we have to start implementing methods all creative minds and technical talents hate. Standard Operating Procedures, Workflows and strict project management!! We have been working on this for several weeks now and processes are starting to get more organized.

Especially for the people working outside of the China office it is sometimes hard to know who to contact and what the right procedure is etc…

Anyway we are implementing new methods and learning every day.

Thanks to everybody in the DBRShenzhen Team ! Keep up the good work !!