guiding rules for choosing a reliable magento development partner

by  Dmitry  Martsinkevich  

Guiding  rules  for  choosing  a  reliable  Magento  development  partner  

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Clients with “redevelopment” requests

Large & small scale projects

Let’s pay once again!

General advice

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-  do they track the bugs report -  do they use Agile and Scrum technics -  do they use SVN -  do they have continues integration -  do they write unit tests -  do they document the projects -  do they use internal wiki for complicated projects -  what kind of agreement about source code do they use offer -  check if they attend conferences -  do they read programming and management books -  do they comment their source code well -  do they have good customer’s references -  …

Quality triangle

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Quality

Time Price

Quality triangle

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Quality

Time Price

Choose two

How does Magento differ?

Compared to an average PHP project on any other

platform

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-  more sophisticated system -  modern programming technologies used -  e-Commerce system (selling function) -  high competitive market with many

“satellites” companies developing platform add-ons

Quality triangle Magento situation

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Quality

Time Price

How to measure quality ?

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Quality =

Experience +

Development approach maturity

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Here at aheadWorks, we classify Magento projects using the following categories: - Payments - Shipping - Product data - Visual enhancements - Checkout

1. Compare your Magento project to developer’s specialization

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You might experience problems when developer rewrites core Magento source code. How to avoid? -  check the extension code???

-  check the extension forums for problems with 3rd party solutions

2. Check the coding standards

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-  Number of products

-  If they developed extensions similar to the ones used in your project

-  Magento partners network

3. Check developer’s extensions and templates experience

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-  Extensions and projects on old Magento versions

Additional but not so important

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-  Number of certified developers

Additional but not so important

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-  Support’s quality during the pre-sale stage

Additional but not so important

Thank you!

If you have any questions or need help with Magento developer, we would be glad to consult you!

Drop me a line:

Dmitry Martsinkevich

martinkevich@aheadworks.com