Well not necessarily. Number of people and projects is easy to measure, but it's far less indicative of value than, say, hours used.
In my past life as a freelancer, I might have 10 or 20 projects going, each with a couple collaborators, but it still only added up to 40 hours of work for me, and the collaborators were negligible.
Now at my startup we only really need one project with 4 collaborators, but we're getting 2-3x the value out of it.
I don't have trouble paying for full-time dev collaborators, but the head count could become a pain point once you roll in various tangential roles such as management, support and sales, etc. I'm not sure the best way to handle this without opening loopholes, but I'm hoping they reach out to some of their users who aren't quite so developer heavy as pivotal labs to discuss options.
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Well not necessarily. Number of people and projects is easy to measure, but it's far less indicative of value than, say, hours used.
In my past life as a freelancer, I might have 10 or 20 projects going, each with a couple collaborators, but it still only added up to 40 hours of work for me, and the collaborators were negligible.
Now at my startup we only really need one project with 4 collaborators, but we're getting 2-3x the value out of it.
I don't have trouble paying for full-time dev collaborators, but the head count could become a pain point once you roll in various tangential roles such as management, support and sales, etc. I'm not sure the best way to handle this without opening loopholes, but I'm hoping they reach out to some of their users who aren't quite so developer heavy as pivotal labs to discuss options.