Logicify Blog

Love it or hate it, failure is an integral threat to any startup owner. “Fail fast,” they say, and some startups obey. For obvious economical reasons, investors and startup owners want the endeavour to fail at an early stage rather than at the final one. But the ultimate goal is, of course, to never fail at all. Easier said than done.

Hiring a remote employee is always risky. True for freelance platforms as well. We’d like to forearm you with a few tips on how to properly choose a technical vendor for your software project — an individual freelancer or an agency — using Upwork as an example. Logicify team shares pros and cons of hiring an Upwork freelance agency. 

In this article, we explain what an Upwork freelance agency looks like and define the type of projects worth hiring an agency for. 

Managing remote teams is a challenge by definition. We proved this by own thorny experience and decided to share our best practices for coopration with remote subcontractors. This article would be useful for business owners and CTOs hiring remote teams, Project Managers leading such teams and for team members working remotely as sub-contractors.

What is a fixed scope approach to development of software products? What are the main risks associated with it when examining the approach from a perspective of a client-vendor partnership? Alex Cherednichenko, Logicify BizDev, gives his honest opinion on the topic and discuses how our company addresses the challenges of fixed scope projects.