Tips for / pitfalls of working on an outsourced project

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Published on 2011-01-23T10:07:05Z Indexed on 2011/02/18 23:33 UTC
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My company has retained an outside firm to develop an iPhone app for us. As the only internal developer with any knowledge of Objective-C, I've been assigned to develop the relevant APIs on our site, but also to do anything I can to make sure the whole thing comes together on time.

Any suggestions for things I should do or things I should watch out for, particularly from those who've been down this road before?

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