How to have safety back up for the company?

We are an embedded product development and embedded software services company recently started near New Delhi(North India).Total strength is

7 people.We are in connectivity area and addressed Automotive segment and doing some connectivity related solutions of a power equipment company.Market response is good except the normal hiccups of business.Getting support of offline and online people.Now planning scaling up.I am heading the company and being not experienced in this field have two worries i.e what type of policies I should adopt so I can retain my good tech and marketing people?How the back up should be built to avoid surprises? Till date no issue on salaries,they are as per market rates rather better.I will appreciate suggestions from my group friends. Regards-SATISH

Hi, I am not an expert in managing but can tell you what we do in our company. We recognise a problem solver(who solves very crucial problem from customer perspective) quarterly once and reward them and this creates a sort of pride in the mind of developer to own the product and motivates them.Second thing we do is to have review with developers to assess them and if really needed provide job rotation.Some employees get bored doing mundane tasks and need something new to challenge them and refresh them technically.Incase onsite oppurtunity is available have a rotation policy to send people one by one so most of them get such a chance.While rotation is a good option take care you send right one for the right problem.

As far as backup is concerned ,its built into our process.When ever we make a customer release a tape drive based backup is done.We will maintain a backup server which will synch up to main server to takeup backups when ever main server data changes.Once in a while we will test the backup server for full fledged operation by shutting down the main server.This will ensure you dont have problems during emergencies like system crash.

Hope that helps, Regards, s.subbarayan