HOW TO STAY ON TRACK WHILE HIRING AN OFFSHORE TEAM IN UKRAINE
In 2022 very few business owners and startup creators wonder how much attention the modern world puts on the lives and businesses of others. The inexhaustible stream of the established ‘success stories’ and recognized models of behavior: do this Bill Gates’s way, sleep fast as Dwane Johnson, think differently as Apple or Google, and join the 4/5/6 a.m. club.
The essential point is to FOLLOW YOUR OWN WAY, your personal business goals, which are reachable in practice, at least in the nearest perspective. When you read our company’s philosophy that the dedicated development team from Ukraine ‘is indeed your team’, it implies not only full control of the developers but direction as well. No outstaffing/outsourcing tech partner would make your project recognizable unless you have the guts to take a sheet of paper and write down what is important personally to you in your business. Give it a chance.
The common advice of breaking a comfort zone and setting on a business development means facing your own limitations: THINK OUTSIDE YOUR PERSONAL BOX. It may sound in contrast to the typical internet wisdom but it is a superpower to hire a team of IT developers in Ukraine, driven and motivated by a kind of a TUNNEL VISION of your dreams, as a business owner.
You should think less about how unimportant your plans and vision may sound to someone else: it should make sense to you. Once you have chosen a direction, thus a roadmap for a new business territory, the challenges would be just a part of a journey.
LITTLE STREAMS MAKE GREAT RIVERS
A recommendation of ‘cutting the expectations in half’ may sound like a retreating misbelief in our times of ‘millionaire thinking’, ‘dreaming bigger’, and ‘world-class goals’. It is a pity that private entrepreneurs with good business ideas may feel frustrated with the prospect of not having such a ‘world-class’ project already on Day 1.
It is widely regarded that an IT sphere presupposes breath-taking business solutions from the very start of any tech project. It is a half-truth and a misrepresentation. Evidently, every successful tech undertaking (looking enough back in time) springs from a sheet of paper and a pencil (or a pen), a dialogue with an expert, or both. Unfortunately, if your goal is to build a successful business and hire development team in Ukraine, the chronic waiting for a success story gives poor results.
Whilst setting up a remote team of developers in Ukraine, there is merit in being a step-by-step doer rather than a business philosopher. Take a sheet of paper or open a digital one, write down your ideas and considerations, then have asleep and do it again (writing down ideas) tomorrow and the day after. Get in contact and schedule a call with an expert in the chosen field. Write down a list of skills and professional virtues you would appreciate in the members of your future dedicated team in Ukraine.
Being ‘Ok’ with imperfection and taking things as they come (step by step) is another vital piece of advice when making up your mind while starting a new business undertaking. Remember, tiny planned actions and triumphs would make a greater value than a forever-waiting for some big life-changing moment, which would probably never come.
ONE STEP AT A TIME
Nowadays, every second book on motivation and personal development would highly likely warm you up by asking ‘Where do you want to be in five/ten/fifty years’. Such an appeal may sound reasonable, yet such a ‘years-in-advance’ philosophy works poorly when you start pushing yourself toward your goal. It’s one thing when you have a clear vision of your own business, your tech project, and a dedicated team of professionals and it may turn into a nightmare to try to envisage for decades in advance.
The point here is not to spread your focus, but rather to make the most of the closest agenda by means of a roadmap of actions for weeks/months. Narrowing/deepening your timeline focus is only the tip of the startup iceberg. Let’s imagine you have a ten-point plan for your project for just twelve months. On a practical level, point ten would benefit more from point nine and all the previous experience than from the initial plan.
A roadmap of your project, for example, an IT startup set up and led by a dedicated team in Ukraine, would be a direction toward your goals, giving benefits from each of these tiny steps down the road.
TAKEAWAYS:
- LIMIT YOUR FOCUS. A thorough twelve-month plan with paced doings means more than dreams for twenty years in advance.
- BE FLEXIBLE. Take step one, gain actual experience, and adapt your initial plan.
- DON’T FORGET TO DO THE JOB. Rough planning is not the same as planning + constant doing. Try to be both a good scheduler and a constant doer while hiring a team of developers in Ukraine.
HOW TO DEAL WITH DISTRACTIONS
The defamation of mobile phones/tablets/watches and the infinity scroll is not the point of this section. It would be enough to say that in recent years it has become more challenging to focus attention on only one particular matter, even an essential one. An assumption that we live in times of ‘mass distraction’ is not far from the truth. The power of making a focus is relevant both to either surfing an Instagram or putting much more effort into setting up an IT project with an offshore team of professionals in another country, for example, Ukraine.
The starting practical message is ‘try to avoid multiple distractions (more than two) at a time. Setting yourself in many directions simultaneously works poorly when it comes to tech project development. Accustom yourself to planning the interaction with a dedicated team in a balance with a planned agenda.
Do not hesitate to delegate commitments to the Project Manager of your remote team in Ukraine, thus avoiding covering all in your own head. If it is too challenging for you to focus for an hour or two, teach yourself. Lastly, don’t try to grasp every news from the surrounding world. Your situational awareness is more effective than being aware of all happenings.
EXPERIENCE IN MAKING MISTAKES
You may have heard an established opinion, that ‘successful’ entrepreneurs, projects, or companies are just the ones lucky enough not to experience failures at all. The belief goes further and suggests that those ‘lucky ones’ succeed because mistakes are not an obstacle if you are in the right place at the right time. The truth is simply vice versa. Those companies and business owners who have their own wins have experienced a number of failed attempts and mistakes on their road to ‘success’.
The more attempts you devote yourself to, the larger chance you have for some of these efforts to grow into something more. The business owner, who is ready to face 10 or 20 or 100 failures and painful setbacks in business, in fact, has the guts to come closer to his or her ambitious goal. Often the owners and their assigned PM invest so much effort in searching for a ‘perfect’ variant, which obviously rarely comes. The long-awaited ‘best’ solution is the enemy of the ‘good’ one.
Let’s illustrate the message above by correlating it with hiring a remote dev team in Ukraine. You should be kind to yourself so that you may not encounter a ‘perfect’ partner in one dash. A dedicated team of IT developers would obviously need time for smoothing your initial business expectations before becoming a professional family. Making tiny practical steps, facing failures, obtaining actual experience, and taking consideration is more essential for a successful undertaking than one's brilliant agenda.
TAKEAWAYS:
- Feel free to make your own mistakes. Doing nothing and forever waiting is the one thing you should avoid.
- Make the most of those little setbacks: it is a superpower to turn them into a vital experience.
- Be at ease with yourself. Going in the right direction is evidently more important than the pace with which you move.
MOVING FORWARD EVERY DAY
It’s a common thing for most people to regard some ‘deciding moments’ with extra importance. When it comes to the IT sphere and running projects with a dedicated team of tech professionals, such ‘breakthrough moments’ may be rather a distraction than your destination point. It is essential to keep in mind that the outcome is the fruit of many tiny day-to-day actions. It may look that your project does not move forward, but once you and your dedicated team in Ukraine do a part of the plan each day, a ‘deciding moment’ would, in fact, come.
In actual terms, if you are a business owner and the founder of an offshore remote team, it would make sense to focus on micro-management, thus on daily actions. It is also important to remember that any project would in one way or another face challenges. The fruitless scenario would be pointing fingers and taking such setbacks as not worthy of the effort.
TAKEAWAYS:
- A scheduled everyday agenda, tiny actions, and constant measurable results are more profound than ‘breakthrough moments’.
- By doing a tiny sizable part of the general agenda every day, your business idea led and supported by a team of developers in Ukraine would have a chance.
