Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
13 Hour(s) 13 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Evan Kimbrell
Rating
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Course Overview
Got an idea? Make it a reality for a fraction of the price. The complete guide to launching your idea via outsourcing.
What do Slack, Skype, Fab, Klout, and GitHub have in common? They all started by outsourcing their product development. They didn't have technical founders, they didn't recruit a team of in-house engineers, and they didn't have gigantic development budgets. Oh, and did I mention that they're now collectively worth over 20 billion dollars?
Every single company or startup outsources in one way or another. Whether it's your product development, your advertising, your testing, or your customer service - you need to be equipped to take advantage of the opportunities that outsourcing presents you. As an entrepreneur, outsourcing is an essential skill for saving money, being lean, and being successful.
Outsourcing is the go-to strategy for saving time and money in order to launch ideas that otherwise would never make it to market. You can build a world class product without hiring an in-house team or recruiting partners. When you finish this course, you'll be able to outsource like a professional. You'll cut your development costs by up to 90% and become a much more capable and skilled entrepreneur
At the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Create, conceptualize, and map out your idea in a way that anyone can easily understand
- Take your idea, create visual wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that are crucial for solidifying your vision and communicating it effectively
- Sketch, rapidly build, test, and collaborate on your feature ideas
- Understand, in intricate detail, the forces that effect your outsourcing project and how to position your project to be successful
- Write job descriptions that bring in the best bids
- Put together professional documentation for your idea and identify potential pitfalls before you spend money
- Select the best possible long-term team using a framework that's built over 100+ professional outsourcing projects
- Employ advanced techniques for getting the best price and cutting your deployment time in half
- Tailor popular tools like Asana, Trello, and Google docs to masterfully run your outsourcing project
- Spot bugs before they become a significant problem
Course Content
- 15 section(s)
- 103 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction (39 minutes)
- Section 2 Getting Started (70 minutes)
- Section 3 Dive Deeper (63 minutes)
- Section 4 Posting Expertise (84 minutes)
- Section 5 Plan Your Outsourced Idea (Optional) (48 minutes)
- Section 6 Documentation (71 minutes)
- Section 7 Building a Low Fidelity Wireframe (128 minutes)
- Section 8 Creating a Demo for Outsourcing (Optional) (48 minutes)
- Section 9 Selecting the Best Person (41 minutes)
- Section 10 Strategies for Getting the Best Price and Experience (44 minutes)
- Section 11 Outsourcing Best Practices (83 minutes)
- Section 12 Managing Your Ongoing Project (23 minutes)
- Section 13 Bug Hunting (19 minutes)
- Section 14 Common Scenarios and How to Handle Them (39 minutes)
- Section 15 Bonus Section
What You’ll Learn
- Understand what is and isn't outsourcing, Validate your idea's preparedness and eligibility for outsourcing, Plan on budgeting and ways of reducing the project cost before starting, Navigate and operate outsourcing platforms Upwork and Freelancer, Use advanced search criteria to locate specific outsourcing partners, Build a contracting strategy that works with your level of experience and your idea's level of progress, Figure out your ideal price point and preferred region, Write job titles, descriptions, and settings that bring high quality bids, Conceptualize your idea through the Sx5 framework to solidify your featureset, Decide which features to include (and drop) in your project's first iteration, Rapidly sketch your ideas like a professional, Use wireframing tools like Balsamiq to quickly put together idea mockups, Break through creativity blocks and keep your project ideation going, Use prototyping tools to add interactivity to your mockup and pre-test features before slating them for development, Create mockups and demos that deploy natively on tablets and phones, Use advanced techniques for quickly bringing your project together, Employ best practices for outsourcing, such as hybrid rates, managing tone, and navigating legality , Use Asana and Trello to keep your project on track and increase project transparency, Bug hunt and run QA tests like a professional , Navigate the most common scenarios that arise from outsourcing
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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CChantal C Mailey
Not engaging sound like in being talked down to
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RRobert Oladele Kolawole
This course is quite interesting. A deep insight into real business world. I highly recommend it to those seeking good and quality knowledge.
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AAnna p
I feel more confident now! Great explanations provided in an easy to understand and digestible manner! Thanks, Evan.
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OOmid irani
best outsourcing course i ever take .... could use bit updating regarding platforms (since it was created some major players marged and examples are bit out dated would also suggest adding some contracts templates and samples more explanations regarding protecting the startup and to make it perfect course would even add some firms and freelancers that course creator used ... this course delv in project management wireframing and other real life examples that are great start for people that are thinking outsource their projects GREAT JOB!
