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<p>OEIMelina2: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Look first at relevant experience, not the number of logos on the website. Ask to see two or three projects that sit close to your technology stack, and then ask w...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Look first at relevant experience, not the number of logos on the website. Ask to see two or three projects that sit close to your technology stack, and then ask whether those engineers are still with the company. A serious vendor will introduce you to the engineers. Answers that name nobody at this stage almost always mean you are talking to a reseller.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The paperwork deserves more scrutiny than the proposal. Three sections matter more than the rest: ownership of the code, confidentiality, and exit terms and handover. All the work product must transfer to you on payment, together with documentation, pipelines [https://webparadox.com/compare/monolith-vs-microservices/ difference between monolith and microservices] deployment scripts. Be careful with language that keeps reusable components outside the transfer, because it is usually the dependency that makes switching painful.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Find out how the estimate was built. A credible estimate is accompanied by a written set of assumptions, a task-level breakdown and a best case and a worst case. A fixed-bid deal works only when the requirements are stable and documented; in any other case the provider prices the risk in and you pay for uncertainty either way. Hourly billing moves the risk back to the client, so it needs a cap, regular demos and transparent reporting.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How the work is run matters as much as team size. Find out how a new requirement enters the plan, who signs off on a feature and what the QA setup looks like. A team can show you running [https://webparadox.com/industries/government/ custom software development for government agencies] rather than status reports. Acceptance criteria in writing are the practical protection against endless rounds of rework.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Finally, plan for the handover at the start rather than at the end. Ask that the repository lives under your account from day one, and that the documentation is refreshed in every sprint. A vendor with nothing to hide says yes immediately; resistance at this point says most of what you need to know.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</div>

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