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David Israel for Uclusion

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Getting the highest ROI out of Contractors

Uclusion, works a lot with contractors. If you’ve ever done so yourself, you understand that the single biggest problem is making sure that the contractor is constantly doing useful work.

We believe that the features we describe below are the minimum requirements for any product which is going to help you get good ROI from your contractors.

Contractor “Swim Lanes” (personalized Kanban boards), are right on your home page.

Approval for a story requires value to be assigned to a story.

If the story is taking more time than estimated we will demand a progress report from the contractor and mark the story as in danger.

When your contractor raises a blocking issue on a story, you will be immediately notified, and will see it in the swim lanes.

You can provide, TODOs and the contractor can’t move the story forward until they do what you tell them.

It’s clearly visible when a story needs your input.

Communication resides inside the story, not outside of it.

You can easily communicate with images and files, not just text.

It is possible to effectively manage contractors without spending inordinate amounts of time or effort. However to do so you need a tool like Uclusion, or you’re going to see significantly lower ROI than you could be.

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