The Secret of a Successful Development Team

Working in a team has lots of advantages if we are talking about working on some project, especially a big one. Each member of the team takes responsibility for certain process, which makes the work faster and more ptoductive. Besides, it is popular among freelancers now. So, if you want to be in a team, it is extremely important to build a really good one. But how?

Well, this is a difficult question and the answer is quite complicated. Let's try to figure it out!

Members of the Team

The first step you must do - find professionals for your team. Surely, working for some period of time in freelance field, you already  know several needed specialists or, maybe, you even have such friends. Also you could find professionals on topical workshops, practical courses, where people go to know something new. In this case, you can be sure the person is really interested in what he is doing.

Talking about the size of the team, you should understand that the quality is more important than the number. The average team has approximately 4-6 people, depends on what kind of projects are interesting for you. Ideally, the development team consists of these members:

• Project manager

This is the "captain of the remote team's ship". The project manager takes responsibility for each process of the work. He controls every member and builds the team communication. He monitors and plans everything what has been done or need to be done.

• Front-end developer

The person who produces HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a web app or a website.

• Back-end developer

The specialist who does programmatic and administration part of a web app.

• UI/UX Designer

The visual specialist of the team, who makes the project design.

• Copywriter/Content manager

The person who fills the project with interesting and useful information.

• SEO specialist/Digital marketer

The specialist who makes the project recognisable and promotes it.

It goes without saying that all the members of the team ought to be highly competent, responsible, honest, diligent, ready to learn something new and so on, and so forth.

Team Communication

Organization of the right atmosphere between team members is essential. You should get on well with every specialist, try to find something common between you.

Communication is the key for the effective and productive work. Motivation, trust, honesty are necessary features of a great team. Such teams will always have lots of job offers, good recalls from clients. Operative work process is impossible without it. That's why it's not recommended to take argumentative people into your development team. Such team will be doomed to failure from the beginning.

In addition, the development team which has been working for great while together has much more experience, and is much more attractive for both new clients and new specialists (if needed, ofc).

Division of Roles, Responsibilities and Tasks

The thing which guaranties particularly efficient work is the right division of all responsibilities. As one of our freelancers said once: "Everyday duties with strict deadlines and everyday meetings with progress reports are the secret of a real success."

If you choose any remote project, your team and you have to plan everything step-by-step. In all cases, every specialist should be informed what to do and how fast it should be done. Moreover, it is necessary to see whether the deadline and the complexity of the task are proportional. Setting correct deadlines helps the team to stay focused on the end result. The team leader must control the workload and always be online if the client wants to do some changes or if he is dissatisfied with something.

Setting goals and motivation is also grandly. As a rule, the more a person motivated, the more he is eager to do any job.

So, Let's Sum Up

In the end of everything I said, let's highlight factors, which form a successful development team:

• A clever team leader
• Competent specialists
• Efficient communication between members
• Trust between the client and the team
• Productive working process

Working with a high-skilled outsourcing team will definitely give you essential experience, good work history and a pleasant and well-paid job!