Building a teamin a city with more outsourcing offices than developers

What?

• July 2015: A team of three could not build a product, nor afford to hire developers.

• February 2016: A team of nine building and marketing a product. And never actually hired developers.

Who?• data analyst• accountant• call center employee selling airplane tickets• holder of a degree in mathematics• technical support officer• freelance photographer and journalist• two students in their final year of study at an IT faculty

How?• Culture of learning• Required skill: ability to learn• Grow into the position you want to have• Be available to share your knowledge

• The 1 / 10 / 100 hours principle• What would you like to do? What you need?• How can you fit into the team?• Is this what you wanted?

Who else?• Graduates of technical universities, not IT faculties• Theoretical mathematics• Nuclear physics• Mechanical engineering

• Those who want to switch careers• Taken steps towards it• Learned something new

How to reach them?• Guest lectures at universities• Hackathons• Public lectures in schools• Programming course – Rails Girls• Host GSoC or RGSoC students in your office• Moldovan and Ukrainian summer of code

• Seed early• Talk today with the experienced you will work with in four years

1 / 10 / 100 hours

• One hour of work

• Ten hours of work

• 100 hours of work

1 / 10 / 100 hours

• One hour to give a direction

• Ten hours to give a tool

• One hundred hours to get comfortable with the tool