Dualboot Partners

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

QuantHub offers data skills assessment and training software through an AI-powered microlearning platform. I am the CEO.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Dualboot Partners, and what were your goals?

We hired Dualboot to assist with Ruby on Rails development.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

They were referred by our venture capital partner, and we had heard of them from other startups.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Staff aug position with a full-time Ruby on rails developer, as well as misc UX support.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2 - project manager and developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Very solid work, great communications

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Very disciplined and excellent project management skills.

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

I've enjoyed getting to know their team. They are very friendly and responsive.

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

At first I think they had too many people on the project - we discussed this and they quickly adjusted to our satisfaction.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of Flyp, a NeoBank consumer techonogy company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Dualboot Partners, and what were your goals?

We needed to launch our MVP mobile app, with integration points to many "as-a-service" providers to complete our banking tech stack.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

I've used the Dualboot team in the past, and had a great experience. We interviewed many other software providers in the NeoBanking space and chose Dualboot because of their ability to execute, technical aptitude, and efficiency of their operations.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

MVP build - storyboarding, UI/UX prototype design, front end (mobile) development, back end architecture, and integration with many SaaS providers for KYC, ATM, BaaS, etc.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Around 7 total. Full DevOps team, including project management.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We launched within 12 months, and are quickly iterating to fold in additional features and modules beyond MVP. Very few hiccups (bugs), and the infrastructure is handling the increase in load well.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Great PM team. available at most hours, evenings, and weekends. Tells it like it is without sugarcoating.

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

They're continuing to grow our company, but are still able to provide great top-to-bottom support.

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

Nothing major. Solid team.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

One Donation connects employee engagement to corporate social responsibility with payroll-linked donations to over 1.6M non-profits.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Dualboot Partners, and what were your goals?

We moved on from our original developer and needed a partner that could step in and work in our Graph QL blockchain based environment to bring our product to market.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Familiarity with our code and communication were paramount.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Our project started off as an ongoing effort to iterate and improve on our existing technology. Along the way we found other potential revenue streams and Dualboot helped us to transform our existing product to fit the new model as well.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

The team size fluctuated based on our current needs. We had one primary project manager who coordinated with the other team members as needed based on the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

NA

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We communicated at least once a week over zoom for team meetings and had slack as our everyday method of communication.

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

Their level of expertise and flexibility in working within our startup environment is impressive.

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

NA

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Operations Manager of this start up.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Dualboot Partners, and what were your goals?

We worked with DualBoot from design, development phase, connections, testing and launch of our new concept.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Ultimately, the personal recommendations we received about their skill, professionalism, and knowledge won our bid.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Full development: Design Redesign Layout Connections Flow CSV UAT Launch In addition to post MVP updates regularly

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

8-10 directly. Designers, project managers, developers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We are a start up, and appreciate the continued support through our growth of concept.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We had a midstream pivot of project managers, and very much enjoyed the additional structure to resources that followed our new project manager. She was a better fit for us, which we never would have discovered without the transition. (They chose to improve through the opportunity to better serve us) As the main point of contact for our end of the project, I appreciated the ability to speak directly with our development team. I believe there were often conversations between my needs and their ability to build it that were better without third party “translation”. I loved having a project manager with the social awareness to let us work with one another.

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

I can not say enough about the overall experience, however, I really enjoyed working with a very specific group of women. I do not believe this was designed for our project (which is male owned) but I believe it added a really personal connection, and different perspective to the project for me to see very technically intelligent women running this project.

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

None at this time

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of a fast growing youth sports technology company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Dualboot Partners?

Our company had outgrown its tech infrastructure and needed an upgrade.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

I was introduced to Todd Beulow by our mutual friend Wade Minter.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

The project involved, defining requirements of the new infra (scalable, elastic, stable, secure), them building a parallel infrastructure, testing and launch.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Our project manager was Allison plus two engineers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

This project not only moved us to a much more scalable AWS environment, but also helped make our deployment process much simpler and consistent.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Workflow was very effective thanks to project manager Allison and weekly status calls.

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

The company assigned a project manager who had tremendous experience in my vertical industry. So she brought project management and tech expertise, plus had an immediate understanding of our business.

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

None.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of a behavioral assessments and consulting company that provides services on 6 continents and has been in business for over 30 years.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Dualboot Partners, and what were your goals?

We came to Dualboot to unravel a technology project gone astray. Not only did the Dualboot team quickly identify the issues and provide a path forward, they executed on it with high professionalism and have found efficiencies along the way. As the main project is done and we are moving on to the next phase, the team applies their learning of our technology needs and products to accelerate development. They are consistently responsive and solutions-focused. We see them as our long-term strategic technology partner.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Please see detail above.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Please see above.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We worked with a team that included domestic management and offshore talent.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Please see above.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Using slack and recurring meetings, project management is thorough and communication is strong.

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

How easy it is to work with Dualboot. Communication is straightforward and it feels like our business goals are aligned.

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

We've worked together to align business reporting with our company's needs.