“Running a Drupal Shop with a Just In Time Staff”

Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Beginner

With the growing need for Drupal web sites worldwide, it is essential that your web development firm has the right staff in place. In the beginning stages of your business, sufficient working capital is nearly always a top concern of the owners of the company. One of the main costs that our type of firm faces is the cost of labor across the board.

Since late-2009, when we began our company with just three personnel, DrupalConstruction.com has developed a unique and profitable business using Just-in-Time-Staffing (JITS) which is a flexible and adaptable model in a field with many opportunities, but a small supply of experienced Drupal developers.

We will discuss the main business drivers of our Drupal shop. How we developed our JITS model. Lessons that we have learned over the past fifteen months, and finally suggestions and recommendations that will assist other web development firms manage their business operations.

Intended audience: 

Drupal design firms that are just beginning or struggling with finding and affording talented staff.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How did we find the right balance of work to labor?
Question 2: 
How do we anticipate the needs of each project?
Question 3: 
How do we retain the services of our just in time labor pool?
Question 4: 
What are the challenges of using this type of system?
Question 5: 
What do you do when the Drupal "Specific" talent is non-existent?
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