GeekyAnts

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I was managing Project as Product Owner.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We have hired few Development team ( Front end and Backened team) for Web development.

SOLUTION

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

Team strength and expertise in domain technical debt

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

We developed Dashboard using react as front end and backened as C# technology so team were involved in grooming sessions and based on wireframe, development team start designing dashboard

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

5 Developers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Smooth delivery , team were very sincere towards work and very good in handling tasks execution

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

We had daily stand ups with team and PO and based on priority we were aligned with tasks .If there were any delay in delivery of tasks, it was noticed to PO ahead of time so that we could prepare plan . We used Jira and Azure devops and Git hub to coordinate and they worked well with our team.

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

Dedication towards work and never hesitated to take challenging activities

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

Taking ownership and accountability of tasks

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Im the CPO of a software provider for enivonmental calculations in the constructions industry. We are a quickly developing start-up.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We are a start-up with some development expertise but not enough capasity to create a software ourself. We are creating a calculation software platform from scratch, in need of development and maintainance. Our goal is to become a full profitable company with many users.

SOLUTION

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

My colleague did this, so I cant answer.

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

Create a full software. Working in sprints we have daily meetings, directing the development where we think is best at all time. Based on user feedback. We use Vue, Firebase and Google cloud functions.

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

There are 4 people in the project. All developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have created a MVP, gotten pilot costumers and think we are on to something good. The developers does a really good job.

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

We communicate via slack. We are the project managers ourself. All developers are timely and take responsibility for leading.

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

Direct access to team, with daily meetings are really great for development.

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

No, not really

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am an executive of an EdTech company

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to make improvements for our React Native mobile app to have a better and more modern UI/UX

SOLUTION

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

We looked for React Native development company who has extensive experience in this field and who could help implementing the best practices from technology perspective.

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

We provided all the designs and React Native code base together with API access and documentation. Our team had the project management and quality assurance role in the project, so both teams worked closely together.

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

A project manager was assigned from GeekyAnts team who had a full oversight of the project. They had several technical people assigned with different roles - code review, code optimization and development.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The app was successfully finished and launched on iOS and Android stores.

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

We had a shared Slack channel between both companies and had an online communication with their team. On a per-need basis we also had conference calls to go over more complex topics.

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

The developers were great working with. They were very active in communication and that helped us to sort all the blocking issues very quickly. Also their developers came up with suggestions and solutions to different problems. It was nice to see that they actually cared about a good solution and product outcome.

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

During the project they assigned one developer who had a specific task to do the mobile app optimization, but seemed that he was not a suitable candidate for this task. Eventually he was removed from the project and we were not charged for his developments. So GeekyAnts sorted this situation well, but should better investigate their candidate qualifications. We lost a little bit of time, but did get to the desired result at the end.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Senior Product Manager handling the project for which we leveraged GeekyAnt's services for designing.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire GeekyAnts?

Website & CMS Designs

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We shortlisted based on secondary research for a consulting vendor and then did background checks with their past clients

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

• Discovery
• Wireframing
• Design
• Prototyping

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

4:

• 1 lead UX
• 2 primary designers
• 1 Supervisor

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project was completed successfully with a minor delay.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Daily stand-ups followed by weekly demos. Collaborated over figma.

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

Time to deliver.

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

UX quality can be improved - designers can think more around handling edge cases before handing over the designs.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We provide a real-time active threat management platform that connects police and medical responders with teachers, students, and other citizens, in real-time, automating key tasks and providing police and first responders with a live overview of the entire incident. I am the CTO

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

To build an iOS and Android app, an iPad app, a web app, and a backend platform.

SOLUTION

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

I had worked with them previously and had great success in a project.

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

I acted as the CTO, PM, and Lead Engineer and worked daily with the GeekyAnts team throughout the full life-cycle of the project. From UX/UI design, through architecture & infrastructure, stack selection and implementation, all the way to build, test, deploy and eventually go-live.

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

3 software engineers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We went live and the entire platform is a tremendous success. Customers are using CERA.

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

Agile Scrum - Slack - Jira - Avion - Figma

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

Each engineer didn't just write code, they asked questions, anticipated potential problems, considered and recommended solutions, and then built very high quality products that delivered tremendous value.

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

No. They were the best team I have ever worked with.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a project manager at a product development firm.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

To develop websites for a product that we are working on.

SOLUTION

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

Wide array of skillsets in software engineering was the deciding factor.

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

The scope of work was to develop an admin website for a hardware product. The project steps were requirement gathering, technical architecture planning and design, development, testing, and bug fixing. The key technology used here was Flutter for UI, NodeJS and Typescript for the backend and APIs.

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

2 engineers worked - both software engineers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our clients loved our new website.

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

We had daily stand ups, regular async communication on MS Teams, and email communication.

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

Quality of work was excellent.

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

The speed of work can be improved upon.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I manage the User Experience team at Pepperfry.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire GeekyAnts?

We wanted to create a Design System to bring Structure and Control to the way of Designing. To ensure consistency in the Visual Experience of our UI.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

After shortlisting 7-8 agencies, we finalised working with Geeky Ants considering their experience and knowledge in the area of Designing and Development

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

The team worked on creating Design System and accordingly tweak the screens where needed. They were very helpful, responsive throughout the project. They came up with suggestions wherever needed. They understood the requirement well and delivered a good Design System at the end of the project.

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

There were 2 Designers and 1 Lead working on the project for 2 and half months.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We are glad we worked with GeekyAnts.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

There were daily updates between GeekyAnts team and In-house team for updates, discussion and iterations if any. There was tracking of the whole project and hence it got completed in the given time.

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

They have knowledge about the services they provide, the team is helpful and understanding.

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

Nothing as yet.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Community manager at Capital Source Technologies Private Limited. We at Capital Source believes in the ideology of Games on Blockchain. This is gonna be the next big thing in the gaming world We’re an enthusiastic, passionate and curious team that comes from the leading global gaming industry with 200+ years of combined experience building and scaling all kinds of social games for the global market.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Geeky Ants for the app development. Our goal was to get a smooth and stable app with all the basic functionalities working.

SOLUTION

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

We did our research on the internet and after comparing the services of many vendors. We decided to go ahead with GeekyAnts because of the pool of quality services they bring to the table.

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

Create a ReactNative App which contain multiple games from platforms like Uinity, Web, React Native etc

Client Side: ReactNative, Unity

Serverside: Firebase (mainly)

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

Mainly 1 developer . Position : Software Engineer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

He was albe to deliver main product in both Android and IOS platforms, and was able to integrate most of the feedbacks from us.

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

We had daily meeting and used to discuss about the progress of the project. The GeekyAnt team also used to provide with some cool ideas on how can we make our app better.

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

The quality of the work they did for our app is mind boggling. Everything was delivered to us according to the timeline

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

I don't think so. Everything was done perfectly.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I lead the Frontend engineering team for a gaming app.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired the people from geekyants to work on React native skillset to move quickly on our deliverables.

SOLUTION

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

Network

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

Confidential.

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

Different number of contractors across our 4 years of partnership ranging from 3 to 11.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Good developers who are very committed to delivering and coming through on the projects. Never felt at any given of time that we were working with people on contracts, and they always came through at par with FTEs.

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

We worked alongside the contractors with our teams and delivered on the projects together.

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

The quality of their developers is really good.

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

Better communications around growth paths of developers/contractors.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a Co-Founder at Custiv. We are a contract manufacturing platform.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire GeekyAnts?

For UI/UX Development.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We searched for multiple design companies online and found GeekyAnts to be the best.

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

Their team understood the requirement very well and formulated the design accordingly.

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

A product designer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We were pleased with the deliverables of the team. They delivered on time and managed the entire project very well.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Excellent. Daily standups, quick response and excellent management

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

They were very willing to understand the requirement and put in their own thoughts rather than just following blind instructions

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

Nope