Outsourcing Status Reports (Book Excerpts)

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Curious about outsourcing status reports? Our book, “Outsourcing Through RentACoder” explains it all. Below are a few selected snippets that describe its importance and why you, as an outsourcer, should care.

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Excerpts:

• With an accessible, privatized forum and calendar, you’ll additionally need a platform to create and store important materials such as weekly status reports and agendas. For this requirement, we recommend Google Docs. (page 131)
• The email message additionally informs you about the website’s safeguards, the website’s chat area in case you want to talk to the coders who bid on your project, the system’s coder rating system which we talk about at length a bit later on, Friday status reports, and the importance of keeping all communication on the RentACoder site. (page 198)
• As stated in RentACoder’s Seller Terms and Conditions, coders must file a status report when working on a project priced $150 or more. (page 232)
• RentACoder’s All Coder Competition ranks each coder by work performance based on job cost, job number, positive feedback, and status reports. (page 238)
• After about a week has passed, you start to get concerned because this coder didn’t file the required Friday status report and you haven’t heard anything from the coder since you hired her. (page 268)
• With RentACoder’s date-based milestone program, coders file a status report every week that details completed work. The content of those details is left to the discretion of either the coder or the buyer, and the details may contain a simple description of what the coder has accomplished so far or files that demonstrate the same. (page 296)
• If you “update” a status report for example, RentACoder deletes the status report –and- the bid that the status report belongs to –and- all of the bid’s comments –and- all of the bid’s bookmarks. (page 304)
• If you’re paying a coder $150 or more, that coder is required to file a weekly status report every Friday. Coders who fail to do so not only risk a damaged rating, they additionally risk a lost arbitration ruling. (page 328)
• Based on the information submitted in the coder’s first status report, has the coder made insufficient progress? (page 329)

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