Freelancers in IT development, Think about benefits/Disadvantage

Bui Thanh Hai

(facebook.com/hai.bth)

Software Freedom Day - FOSS@HUS Hanoi, 15th September, 2012

1. About

Bùi Thanh Hải (Freelancer) IT System Developer, Project Manager linkedin.com/in/buithanhhai1981 - 6 years experience in Coding, Team Leader for a company - 4 years work as Freelancer in groups: Asssembla, ODesk and others. - Web application development: Java/Struts/J2EE and Ruby On Rails

2. Overview

- Freelancers in IT field, who are you? - What are Benefits? - What are Disadvantage? - Success experiences - What should you do?

3. Freelancers in IT field - Who are you?

1 - Independently Coders/Designer 2 - Developers work in group 3 - Managers/Experts

3. Freelancers in IT field - General features

- Independently/Work for yourself - Unstable work - Brand-name motivation - Large networks: partnership, internet (freelancer.com, odesk.com…)

4. What are benefits?

- Flexible plans - More opportunities - Strong self-organization - Rich experiences - Huge international market - Good for stand-up a company (maybe)

5. What are Disadvantages

- Unstable income - Easy to overload - Low face-to-face communication for oversea developers - Lack experience in big organizations - Have you lost your way?

7. Success experiences – A freelancer

(Screenshot from wowkhmer.com)

7. Success experiences – Freelancer Group

(Screenshot from vietcodepro.com)

8. What should you do?

- Plan focus on your career (not only work) - Understand work process (ex: Scrum) - Good in a special field or know everything? - Good communications (Good in English) - Have backup plans - Work in group, join some communities BIG QUESTION: - trong trường hợp tăng trưởng -> kế hoạch cho tương lai?

Thanks and Questions!