India, March 12 -- When it becomes necessary to bring extra developers on board to meet an approaching delivery deadline, managers must balance the need to stay on schedule against the possibility that hastily acquired newcomers will bring with them sub-standard coding skills and poor work habits.
"It's often horrible if you have to find a developer in a hurry," said Joe Devon, co-founder of Diamond, a firm specializing in scalable, high-performance web and mobile applications. "Everything is a rush and it's mostly because it took too long to decide on the project."
Still, when crunch time looms, an organization can easily find itself in the uncomfortable position of having to make "hurry hires." Don't underestimate the task, warned Jacob...