You might remember way back at the end of Feb/early March, I started a project on RentACoder which subsequently went belly up due to the coder who was good at first turning out to be a bit naff and being unable to follow my instructions. The project went to arbitration and I have finally won and been awarded all my funds back ($500, so not a small amount!).

I’m trying to fathom what lessons I can learn from this. I think I did everything right when choosing the winning coder, but still ended up in a nightmare. What I might do differently next time (if there is a next time) on a project the size of this is set a number of milestones that have to be met in the course of the project. That way I have something to hold the coder to and would be able to cancel the project earlier if any of these deadlines were not met.

Anyway, onwards and upwards…!