Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder & Strategic Advisor of BlueMelon

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

At BlueMelon, we help enterprise Sales, Marketing, Product, and Training teams turn complex ideas into clear, persuasive communication.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams to accomplish?

Defining the right IT strategy to support design led digital experiences.

SOLUTION

How did you find Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

Clutch Site

Why did you select Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

In a digital project, where we did all the creative and design work, we have contracted the services of Agiledrop to offer consulting on the IT strategy. 
Their role was to consider the technical feasibility of our design ideas, suggest the appropriate platforms and integrations and construct a transparent technology roadmap that resonated with the long term ambitions of our client. The most important deliverables were the complete IT strategy document, a recommendation on CMS and hosting solutions, and how to make sure the scalability and performance.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Their experience provided us with a significant technical direction, which minimized the development risks and made sure that the platform that the client needed would serve the current and further purposes. Consequently, the seamless implementation of the work on our design was made, and the client was offered a quicker launch. 
Another great advancement that we observed is in the efficiency when it comes to the process of handing over design to development, and this can be credited to the organized approach used by Agiledrop.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Agiledrop was able to manage the consulting engagement successfully. They came up with strategy documents and recommendations within the stipulated time and were at any time whenever we required clarifications. They adjusted easily to our working style and that made it easy to work together without any stress.

What was your primary form of communication with Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The most notable thing about them was that they were able to bridge the design and technology gap. They did not simply look at the IT side but took the time to know the creative vision and made sure that their strategy was in line with it. What technical expertise with the touch of design needs was noteworthy was that balance.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams could have done differently?

The whole experience was quite positive. The only thing that needs to be enhanced is probably the number of real life case studies that can be offered in the course of the strategy phase because it would enable us as clients to picture the way their recommendations can be implemented in the real world.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder & CEO of Praxis Advertising

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

praxis Advertising is a leading full-service agency in Dubai, specializing in Branding, Integrated Communication, Space Design, and Digital Marketing.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams to accomplish?

• custom built, high converting landing pages to support your ad campaigns.

SOLUTION

How did you find Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

• Online Search
• Clutch Site

Why did you select Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We used the services of Agiledrop to help us with web development in a number of client campaigns. Their team developed new landing pages, optimized current websites to convert ads and applied analytics. The most important deliverables were responsive, search engine optimized web pages, API integration with advertising services, and technical support. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The findings were straightforward: campaign landing pages became loaded sooner and conversion rates were higher, and analytics integration provided us with the correct tracking of performance. The work of Agiledrop boosted the generation of leads and customer interaction with our clients in a measurable manner. 

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Agiledrop had a good project management. They also exchanged a lot of information, established specific milestones, and provided all stages of the project in time. They were fast and problem solving whenever we had requests or required adjustments.

What was your primary form of communication with Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

We liked the fact that they smoothly integrated technical skills with a conception of our advertising objectives. Their capability to make our creative vision work into functioning high-performance web solutions is one of the strengths that were unique to them.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams could have done differently?

Generally, the cooperation was very good. Better still with more proactive suggestions in the early stages of planning would have been useful. This however is a minor thing when weighed against the overall quality of their service. 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CMO of Stavvy

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Stavvy is a digital transaction platform built for real estate professionals. By connecting people, systems, and processes together, Stavvy modernizes the real estate transaction through collaboration, reliability, and choice.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams to accomplish?

• We hired Agiledrop to help us build and improve parts of our web platform so that we could deliver a smoother experience for our users and speed up our development timelines

SOLUTION

How did you find Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

• Online Search
• Clutch Site

Why did you select Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

The scope of work involved frontend development, creating responsive pages, and optimizing our existing codebase. They worked closely with our team to implement new features, improve the UI, and ensure the final product matched our design and performance requirements.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The results were clear  our platform became faster, the user experience improved, and we were able to roll out new features without delays, which made a real difference for our customers.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Their project management was very solid. They kept communication open, stayed on schedule, and were quick to adjust if we needed changes along the way. Everything was delivered on time with no surprises.

What was your primary form of communication with Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What stood out most about Agiledrop was how seamlessly they integrated with our team. It felt like working with an extension of our own developers rather than an outside agency.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams could have done differently?

We’re happy with the results.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your organization.

We are a digital agency specializing in Drupal development, UX [user experience] design, business analysis, and performance tracking. We work within the nonprofit, arts, cultural and heritage sectors. We have a growing number of stable clients for which we typically focus on the development of websites with integration to third-party systems like CRM [customer relationship management] or marketing tools. I'm the managing director of the company. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What business challenge were you trying to address with AGILEDROP?

We came to a point of expanding our Drupal development team while also needing extra capacity in order to flex as and when required. We previously tried working with independent freelancers, which did work, but we came to find the approach painful. AGILEDROP has supported us across multiple engagements.

SOLUTION

Please describe the scope of their involvement.

AGILEDROP has completed four or five projects for our company, some more substantial than others. At peak capacity, our team from AGILEDROP has featured three to four resources.

How did you come to work with AGILEDROP?

I actively researched a couple of agencies in terms of capabilities, trustworthiness, and so on. The choice came down between AGILEDROP and another vendor. I had a conversation with both and got along very well with AGILEDROP's principal [founder and CEO Iztok Smolic]. When the right opportunity came up, we started doing business.

What is the status of this engagement?

We have been working with AGILEDROP for two years. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Could you share any statistics or metrics from this engagement?

In all of the work we've done with AGILEDROP, from the start, the level of trustworthiness and their quality of work have been excellent.

AGILEDROP has remained available to us when we needed them. Despite the fact that we're based in the United Kingdom and AGILEDROP is not, the level of communication has been excellent. I run a distributed company, with resources in Wales, Hungary, London, and Argentina, so I'm used to working remotely. When working with someone who wasn't a part of the company, the process had been painful in the past. We have been given access to AGILEDROP's time tracking. They engage with our tools and systems without a problem and we've never had to re-audit a piece of coding from them. We've questioned functionalities and behavior, but this is a normal part of unit testing.

How did AGILEDROP perform from a project management standpoint?

AGILEDROP has delivered their assigned work within time and budget. At the start of the relationship, we engaged in a direct collaboration with the developers, which continues. During the course of time, as we did more work together, we also engaged a resource from AGILEDROP for project managing developers. We typically run projects through our own manager but, when it comes to AGILEDROP's resources, particularly for bigger pieces of work, they also provide someone who makes sure that resources are being used most efficiently, in a way that will best help the project.

We use a tool called Mantis internally while AGILEDROP uses JIRA for project management. 

What distinguishes AGILEDROP from other providers?

I give them citations in terms of reliability, trustworthiness, and level of skill. AGILEDROP is a very keen company. They're always thinking of ways in which something can be made better. AGILEDROP is very energetic about doing the work in a good way.

We've had queries that weren't related to the direct piece of work that we were handling. A particular question came around hosting and performance, particularly around Acquia. AGILEDROP doesn't provide hosting services, but they do have a couple of system administrators. We had a quick chat with them, AGILEDROP jumped on to the conversation, and added some ideas to the thread. Ultimately, the issue was related to the project on which AGILEDROP was working, but not with their actual tasks. AGILEDROP was very forthcoming and willing to contribute.

Is there anything AGILEDROP could have improved or done differently?

The relationship was good from the get-go and has remained good. What has also been good was the fact that we've adapted in a couple of instances, in terms of timekeeping and how tasks are broken down and displayed to us. AGILEDROP has responded positively to these requests, and the changes have improved the relationship. If we were only using AGILEDROP now and again for a couple of hours, we wouldn't need to have such tight tracking by day and hour. However, because we're doing bigger pieces of work, we need to be able to track against an overall budget. We need a more complex picture, to which AGILEDROP responded positively.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your organization.

We are a French web agency specializing exclusively in Drupal. We also have a subsidiary organization dedicated to web hosting. Our team is composed of 12 developers. We work with big customers in France within the media and publishing industries. We've been in business for almost 15 years.

What is your position?

I am the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What business challenge were you trying to address with AGILEDROP?

They had skills in HTML and CSS development which we were lacking internally.

SOLUTION

Please describe the scope of their involvement.

We work with AGILEDROP exclusively on integration projects. We are developers ourselves and thus have a limited need of skills within our work. One of our projects was for a multilingual media website dedicated to learning French. It's a very nice, responsive website.

The team assigned to us consisted of two developers as well as a dedicated project manager for each project.

How did you come to work with AGILEDROP?

We've worked with many different project partners for integration work. One of my business partners has been relocated in Slovenia. He met AGILEDROP during an event. We initially gave them a trial project. AGILEDROP performed very well and we decided to make them a preferred partner.

Could you provide a sense of the size of this initiative in financial terms?

The total development cost has been approximately $130,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with them three years ago.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Could you share any statistics or metrics from this engagement?

The thing which we appreciate most about working with AGILEDROP is their ability to integrate with our workflow.

They deliver what is asked of them with good quality and go beyond what we expect. As an example, we assigned them work based on templates without interaction descriptions from the designers. AGILEDROP created these interactions perfectly and our customers were happy with the results.

How did AGILEDROP perform from a project management standpoint?

We use Redmine for all of our projects. They've integrated their team seamlessly within it. AGILEDROP is very good at making estimates at the beginning of a project. They always turn out to be spot-on or slightly below our budget.

What distinguishes AGILEDROP from other providers?

I appreciate their research and development process. AGILEDROP regularly trains their developers in order to be up-to-date with the latest technologies. They generate responsive web designs and are skilled at design, integration, as well as development. We don't use them as developers but we know that we're working with people who have these skills, which gives us peace of mind. When working with a CMS like Drupal, it's important to employ people who embrace all these specializations.

Is there anything AGILEDROP could have improved or done differently?

We have regular meetings and improve our work processes constantly. Every business relationship can evolve, but we've had a very good working collaboration.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Executive Chair and Director of TEG Pty Ltd

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Ticketek Entertainment Group is a leading global live entertainment, ticketing and technology business which sits at the heart of the live event experience for millions of fans. The company operates worldwide out of seven country offices and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams to accomplish?

• Designing a modern, visually engaging website to showcase upcoming concerts, events, and ticket sales.

SOLUTION

How did you find Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

• Online Search
• Clutch Site

Why did you select Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Agiledrop was selected because it was needed to renew the event site design and make it more friendly to attract the fans and help them locate and purchase the tickets.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

This involved a complete overhaul of a site, creation of customized event pages, enhanced the booking process, and ensuring that the site was fully optimized to mobile. They also paid attention to developing a clean design that would reflect on our brand and present future shows in an exciting manner.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The findings were self explanatory the site became more appealing, the visitors spent more time, the process of tickets booking became much easier, and one engaged more with our events.

What was your primary form of communication with Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They had excellent project management. It was all on time, communication was clear and they were speedy in making changes when we needed to make them or introducing new ideas.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams could have done differently?

The thing that impressed us most was the way they knew a lot about the entertainment industry and used the knowledge to create the design that resonated with our viewers. It seemed as if they were as interested in the experience of the fans as we were.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Director and Co-founder of Reef Digital Agency

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Reef Digital Agency delivers data driven advertising solutions that help brands grow through targeted campaigns, performance marketing, and creative strategy.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams to accomplish?

• adding skilled developers to quickly build and optimize campaign landing pages.

SOLUTION

How did you find Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

Clutch Site

Why did you select Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We partnered with Agiledrop to strengthen our technical capacity through IT staff augmentation. Their developers worked alongside our in house team on client facing projects, which included building campaign landing pages, integrating analytics and tracking tools, and optimizing website performance for ad driven conversions. The key deliverables were clean, well structured code, seamless ad platform integrations, and reliable development support.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

With Agiledrop’s support, we were able to deliver projects faster and with higher technical precision. Campaign landing pages went live ahead of schedule, tracking accuracy improved, and our clients reported stronger engagement metrics and increased ROI from advertising efforts

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Agiledrop’s project management was professional and dependable. They integrated smoothly into our workflow, adhered to agreed timelines, and communicated clearly through our chosen tools. Whenever we had urgent requests or shifting priorities, their team responded quickly and effectively.

What was your primary form of communication with Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams?

Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What impressed us most was how easily their developers adapted to our culture and processes. They weren’t just technical support they became an extension of our team, showing initiative and a strong understanding of the advertising context behind the projects.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Agiledrop - developers for agencies and in-house teams could have done differently?

Our experience was very positive overall. The only improvement we’d suggest would be having more proactive recommendations at the start of projects, particularly in suggesting technical alternatives. That said, their adaptability and delivery quality more than made up for this.