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- 2. www.plance.nl Speaking about Myself Freelancing in Netherlands Nearshoring from Netherlands My Nearshoring projects My Company
- 12. www.plance.nl study nuclear Physics in Delft University 1991 - 1997
- 13. www.plance.nl work at Oracle Netherlands 1999-2001 SQL PL/SQL RDBMS Forms Designer JDBCJSP Java
- 14. www.plance.nl work at Finalist java company 2001-2006 Java Hibernate HTML CSS Struts JDBCJSP JEE MySQL Ant Maven
- 15. www.plance.nl in 2006 start work as Freelancer HTML5 PHP Java Ruby-on-Rails JDBC JSP CSS3 Javascript XUL
- 16. www.plance.nl What is Freelancer in Netherlands? freelancer == one person company
- 17. www.plance.nl Benefits for freelancer No Boss! No things like hour registration, review processes, politics, internal bureaucracy Choose you own tools and technologies No costs for salesguy, manager, office building etc. more happiness!
- 18. www.plance.nl Benefits for freelancer Tax reduction for car, telephone, computer Tax reduction for small companies Tax reduction for starting companies (till 3 years) No costs for salesguy, manager, office building etc. higher earnings!
- 19. www.plance.nl Challenges for freelancer More paperwork, bureaucracy No colleagues to ask for help Proof that you are a real company! Find (online) administrator Stackoverflow > 1200 hours/year > 3 customers/year should be marketing and risk
- 20. www.plance.nl Challenges for freelancer How to find good customers and interesting work? your own network, people you know online market places hiring sites intermediary companies
- 21. www.plance.nl Intermediary Company = Agency = Broker = InBetween = BodyShoppers = Sourcer = Recruiter
- 22. www.plance.nl Intermediary Companies freelancers can subscribe create pools of CV’s make lot of phone calls make contracts with big companies take margin forever sometimes provide extra services
- 24. www.plance.nl Happy Flow Hiring Process 1. agency guy calls 2. you send CV 3. you go to intake conversation 4. you get contract!
- 25. www.plance.nl Statistics Netherlands: - population: 16,8 million - working people: 7,3 million - IT sector: ~300.000 - freelancers: 780.000 - IT freelancers: ~ 50.000
- 26. www.plance.nl More and more freelancers in NL • freelancers are better motivated and skilled • greater flexibility with freelancers • our society gets more individualistic • freelancers do self-organize • freelancers have unions that lobby • companies start direct hiring of freelancers, without intermediary company
- 27. www.plance.nl reasons for growth • freelancers are better motivated and skilled • greater flexibility with freelancers • our society gets more individualistic • freelancers do self-organize • freelancers have unions that lobby • companies start direct hiring of freelancers, without intermediary company
- 28. www.plance.nl Future... -> Talent can be more easily found through internet -> IT knowledge becomes more easily available -> Transactions, administration, dealmaking, insurance become available as web services -> Collaboration becomes more easy More opportunities for Freelancers to take control!
- 29. www.plance.nl My Freelance Jobs 2007 - Insurance Company – Oracle/Java/Struts/Javascript 2008 - Marketing Company – JEE/JBPM 2009 – KPN Dutch Telecom – BPM Processes Design 2010 – Startup ValuedProfessionals.nl – Product Owner
- 30. www.plance.nl Why nearshoring? -> not enough developers in NL -> developers too expensive -> not too much timezone difference -> two/three hours flight -> not too much cultural difference
- 31. www.plance.nl What is wrong with India and China? -> bigger cultural difference -> unable to say “no” -> long distance, different timezone -> more effort needed to explain
- 32. www.plance.nl Nearshoring countries for NL Newer EU countries: -> Chech Republic, Poland Old but ‘poor’ EU countries: -> Spain, Portugal, Greece Newest EU countries: -> Rumania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Outside EU countries: -> Ukraine, Belarus, Russia
- 33. www.plance.nl But also.... Netherlands colony: -> Antilles
- 35. www.plance.nl and.... -> State of Palestine
- 37. www.plance.nl How did I start with Nearshoring?
- 44. www.plance.nl
- 45. www.plance.nl what projects? -> Firefox browser extension with A. Grakou -> Java JBoss Seam app with devs from Minsk -> Website Flash2HTML.NL with devs from Kiev -> Flash -> HTML conversion of Floorbase.nl -> Web App and Back-end for Dutch Rail -> Remote team coaching -> Lots of websites and webshops, design and development -> Test automation with XML2Selenium, JazzTeam
- 47. www.plance.nl Peter Team Functional Specs Functional Specs QAQA Customer communication Customer communication Find Customer and Project Find Customer and Project for small projects Technical Design Technical Design DevelopmentDevelopment TestingTesting
- 48. www.plance.nl small projects Fixed price No fixed date, too hard QA done by me WebDesign can be problematic Online collaboration tool like Basecamp, Google Docs Weekly progress meeting
- 49. www.plance.nl Peter Team Functional Specs Functional Specs QAQA Customer communication Customer communication Find Customer and Project Find Customer and Project for big projects Technical Design Technical Design DevelopmentDevelopment TestingTesting
- 50. www.plance.nl big projects Not fixed price, price per iteration More management and communication needed Need for agile methodology: Scrum QA, Testing automated as much as possible (XML2Selenium) Online collaboration tools like Pivotal Tracker, InVision, Jira, GitHub
- 51. www.plance.nl Lessons learned Scrum very useful in offshore project Always be open/online for communication Retrospective/Evaluation maybe most important Smartly divide work between local and remote Work on trust and long term relations
- 52. www.plance.nl Smart division of work divide work along components with API contract. make specification by tests (unit, FitNesse) have one senior team-member on-premise with customer try to have sprint demo with entire team
- 53. www.plance.nl Plance Propositon for customers Nearshore IT Staffing Nearshore Agile Team
- 54. www.plance.nl Plance Propositon for Belarusian IT Freelancers Get into contact with me if you are interested in working for dutch customer. I would like to know you
- 55. www.plance.nl Plance Propositon for Netherlands IT Freelancers Get into contact with me if you are interested in working with great Belarusian IT Teams!
- 56. www.plance.nl Plance Propositon for Belarusian IT Companies Get into contact with me if you need local help with dutch or german customers!
- 58. www.plance.nl Plance Propositon for Belarusian IT Companies Get into contact with me if you need local help with dutch or german customers!
- 59. www.plance.nl Future looks bright! Even during crisis, shortage of developers, now economy growing again. IT sector keeps growing, software is everywhere Collaboration tools improve World becomes more global
- 60. www.plance.nl More information: www.plance.nl - company 010-vladok.reitsma.ru - автостоп www.opdrachtaanbieders.nl – посредники
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- no pension.... no insurance....
- a lot of these companies in NL
- union=профсоюз
- union=профсоюз
- union=профсоюз
- DAXX is oldest, offices in Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Saint-Petersburg -> IntoSoft = Belarussian/Dutch company -> Bridge, Global IT Staffing, very nice innovative company, India and Ukraine -> Levi9: Kiev, Donetsk, Novi Sad and Iasi. Founded by prince, nephew of the king. -> Byelex is from Rotterdam, Call themselves the Minsk Silicon Valley. Started by Herman Vissia who studied in Minsk in 80’s
- I did all this projects next to my freelancing jobs
- Scrum useful -> predictability -> good patterns, iterations -> good project roles -> (best to have scrummaster near team)