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A Top MBA Graduate's Experience with Software Development.

My first computer was a Vic20 console (similar to the Commodore 64). It took cartridges as well as had a tape drive. As there was only one game, the only way I could play different games was to purchase a big 1000 page games coding book. For hours I would copy lines of code and save the progress to cassette tapes. You don’t know coding frustration until you have completed 2000 lines of code and the program doesn’t work, though it did teach me the skill of debugging.

Our ability to communicate over many different channels and distances has changed the landscape of how we work and socialise. When I was a kid we were unreachable until we got home near a landline. Now we have a myriad of ways of staying in touch. While this has annoying, distracting downsides, it opens up a new world for companies to engage in remote work solutions.

I started reinteractive as a 100% remote software development company. While not all businesses are suited to this model, I find that many software developers enjoy remote work.

Today I was asked by a client to give them some reasons why they should outsource to reinteractive instead of hiring an in house team. They needed to convince their Board the pros and cons of setting up an internal software development team from scratch versus using reinteractive. The project under discussion was the implementation a bunch of key features for their platform as well as a partial rewrite of key aspects.

Unsurprisingly, I've been asked this question several times by our clients, and my response has almost always been the same; do both.

Here at reinteractive, we care deeply about the quality of our code. We have many processes in place to ensure that the code we produce for our clients is of the highest quality, one of which is a mandatory code review. Before any feature makes it into staging, it must be reviewed by at least one, and preferably two, other developers.

To quote Wikipedia, a code review is a systematic examination of source code. It is intended to find mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, improving the overall quality of software.