Agilno

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO/Founder of an arts, entertainment & music company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Create tools to improve task and project management across Film, TV, Games and Animation through Pre, Prod and Post Production.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Agilno to accomplish?

• Build complete front end
• Build complete back end
• Help lead the development
• Help with getting the product online and working
• Breakdown the project into clear achievable milestones

SOLUTION

How did you find Agilno?

• Online Search
• Referral

Why did you select Agilno over others?

• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Agilno were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The main goals were to create a product around the creation, assignment and reviews of tasks for digital content creation projects spanning Pre, Production & Post Production 

• connecting a singular IP across mediums. 
• Project structure & onboarding 
• Task Creation 
• Teams 
• Users & Roles 
• Task Assignment 
• Notifications system 
• Chat system 
• Task Review

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We connected all the major stages of the project to trackable milestones using a ticket system. This way we were able to assign tasks and sub-tasks to workers and track their progress solving issues efficiently along the way. Hitting these major stages within the timeframes and testing how 'usable' the product was, was how we tracked whether we were successful or not at achieving that particular milestone.

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

Agilno has responded very well to our needs. Many items were delivered on time, a few were not and I feel this was an issue on both sides. This normally only happened when they were expecting us to deliver a final UI that they could implement and use but this is not always easy when building a product like this because sometimes an early version needs to be implemented, tested then re-worked. 

On the odd occasion, their also seemed to be a slight lack of knowledge/confidence for certain aspects of a dev work where they said they could do what was asked but in reality it turned out more complicated than they anticipated and in a couple of examples wasn't executed at all.

What was your primary form of communication with Agilno?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Their level of organisation to project structure and laying out the milestones to achieve the best success.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Agilno could have done differently?

• Better communication when things are not working. 
• Better leadership, I hired them to build a product and sometimes I felt I was having to solve dev issues, which is not my area of expertise at all. 
• More experienced Dev's: There were things we were asking of them for this project that they seemed to have very little idea of how to build within their current team, so they need to expand their knowledge base with the hiring of better/more experienced devs.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company supports different automotive OEMs in deriving better products and services. My position is bringing balance to the force of the Big Data Engineering team.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Agilno?

Agilno was responsible for supporting the development of our frontend/web application.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Based on market research.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Full stack development (React, Python, Devops), Mobile development

What was the team composition?

3 Mid React developers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

The code quality was constantly improving over time.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Communication and response time was very good.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The documentation was well written.