About DinoRoar

DinoRoar was setup by John Nicholas. Initially the reason for this was in response to how recruitment agencies have made it incredibly difficult for a company to find project work. This has harmed everybody because the entire idea of grabbing random people, sticking them together in a team and expecting anything more than average results is crazy.

One person, or several individuals do not make a functioning team - especially not over very short engagements.

There are a lot of very good contractors but, as Demming points out, when you place people in a system their behaviour will be dictated by that system. There will be feedback and compensating processes that reinforce that system - despite it not being in the interest of the company (We run workshops on this very problem). Once entrenched it becomes incredibly difficult to even see this exists - but it can be measured and the assumption uncovered. In the end the pressure for ‘results now’ is what leads to contractors bing hired but also their tendency to deliver exactly what you ask for with very few questions asked. At this point the ability for the company to learn becomes severely impaired.

This is the problem DinoRoar exists to solve.

The idea was to take a group of people who all contract under run their own companies but have worked together in the past and who share a common set of values and principles as to how to engage with customers and deliver work. We can take a pre-prepared team who are proven to be effective and deploy them rapidly with a well understood set of parameters for how success is to be measured.

It is very difficult to find a team of developers who are customer focused, used to working together, have a lot of experience and have consistently delivered.

Customer Focused Vision

Back to basics XP: getting the process of delivery right from engagement with customer. Through communication, the assumption of the existence of simple solution by involving the customer in the feedback process we can deliver:

• agree incremental checkpoints and reviews of relationships
• documented agreed requirements through automated customer defined tests
• rapid response at constant cost to changes in the customers priorities

Partnership Vision

The vision for DinoRoar is a group of developers who work together simply because to do so is in the best interests of everyone.

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