We have published most of what we have to say on this subject in our Habrahabr blog.
To recap briefly:
Everything flows; nothing remains - Heracitus
Unlike everything and nothing, Ultima’s solutions change for the better and remain best.
If your business deals with hard-to-standardize services on request with time-based pay, come to us. We will pleasantly surprise you with tons of great ideas – already tested, too – over and above those three links.
Or do you think that this model is not right for you? Specifics of the business and all that?
Well, most IT managers are convinced that piecework for programmers is impossible in principle, and hordes of lazies have to be kept salaried day by day.
These are the same wonderful administrators who are sure that there is no way to effectively manage remote employees. Nothing but mile-long office hives, CCTV cameras, clocking in and out when visiting bathrooms and spyware on PCs - BIig Brother is watching you. Better safe than sorry.
We have proven these people wrong through our work organization.
We have tens of programmers, all of them full-time, and not a single “administrator.”
Accountants have been eliminated and shot.
All developers work flexi hours from home or wherever they like, from Kaliningrad to Ecuador.
Time-keeping, coordination and job distribution for projects are automated, i.e. for free and error-free.
All this in no way detracts from Ultima’s guaranteed product quality as we continue to offer globally unique working conditions to an unlimited client audience.
So even if you are a babysitter agency, a hire-a-hubby, a legal firm or another of the countless variety of companies that comprise the services economy – do not hesitate to call.
“Come to us those who hunger and thirst.”