Finding a Ready-Made Dev Team?

marshrew writes "We are a small startup just coming out of a period of R&D with IP and prototype code (containing open source, commercial & freelancer-built custom components) developed/integrated in-house by essentially one guy. We're at the point where we want to build out first commercial implementation which will require a handful of developers for at least six months. We really don't have time or funds to go through a developer recruiting cycle, create a practice, get the team "gelled" etc. What we'd really like to do is find a small pre-existing team which which we could form a relationship to get our product out the door and possibly continue working with. We don't mean a splinter group from a larger dev house, but an agile, self-contained team, who enjoy working together and have an existing practice. Geography is not a problem as we are used to working in a distributed manner." Does such an animal exist? What have other teams done in a situation like this?

Comments

Perhaps you could hire these guys

[FidelCatsro]

In 2005, a crack Hacker unit was sent to prison by an over-zealous RIAA for a crime they didn't commit(Theft , it should have been copyright infringement).

These men promptly got released due to a technicality ,to the Los Angeles und3rgr0und!!!!. Today, still wanted by their Previous employers due to a contractual problem and for maintaining some perl code , they survive as Developers of FORTRAN.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...the @-Team.

Re:Perhaps you could hire these guys

[NewmanBlur]

"I gotta work with this crazy foo'!?!"

Sony contractors

[LiquidCoooled]

I hear there are a group of developers who are just being dropped by Song BMG, perhaps you could give them a call ;)

If I hear that one word one more time.....

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

AGILE.....goddamnit. It's software, not a 4 legged creature!