Giant Leap Lab

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of modern software development company North Coast Code.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Giant Leap Lab, and what were your goals?

Giant Leap Lab's amazing team has been helping us building the most of our complicated front end solutions using different modern technologies as flutter and react.js. Our goal was at first to get a bit more resources from foreign developers, but it turned out to be much more. This led to a long-term cooperation.

SOLUTION

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

At first we started cooperating as part-time, but as time went on, it became clearer that this team is doing amazing job, has a super great vibe and they are very accurate in time tracking, planning, delivering and coding.

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

The scope of our projects has been endless. We are still adding new features every month and building game changing start-ups together. Main technologies and frameworks we are using together are Flutter (dart), React.js (Javascript) and Laravel (PHP).

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

We had and still have 6 senior developers from vendor's team working as part and fulltime in our projects.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have been able to integrate and implement a lot of integrations and custom made design to our projects which has been helping us to onboard hundreds of thousands users around World to our platforms.

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

The project management worked out and still is working great. Communication between our team and vendor's team is always concrete, detailed and effective.

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

The most impressive thing is their team can solve any obstacle you can imagine in software development.

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

As we have many backends done by ourselves in Java, we are hoping to hear that they can start helping us in Java development as well in future.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the co-founder and managing an e-commerce website

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Giant Leap Lab, and what were your goals?

We hired Giant Leap to develop our website

SOLUTION

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

We have other projects with them

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

We had discussion about the project last year. They listened to everything we wanted in the website. They did their researches for quite good time. Their suggestions of the technology to use was the best in the market. To get the best out of it, I usually draw what I want them to do, they make it even better. Giant Leap makes sure that every code they write is flawless. You may see many random tests, that to make sure your product works very well and you can monetize it.

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

3 IT developers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We're still soft launching but the results are promising. They are always on time for any feedback by our clients. They make the changes we need as soon as possible.

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

Giant Leap use top platforms to mange tasks and track timeline. The communication with the team is great.

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

They keep testing each line of code to make sure everything is working flawlessly

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

No, hands down

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We provide secure managed IT services to highly demanding clients in terms of security and privacy.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Giant Leap Lab?

We needed a custom tool in order to handle and forecast our client's budgeting needs.

What were your goals for this project?

We aimed to be able to forecast IT project costs, per budget line, per department and cost center for at least 5 years and to be able to compare forecast vs actual numbers.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We did an RFP from both freelancers and other companies and asked for technical questions as well as questions of logic and project management. Giant Leap was by far our first choice, despite not being the cheapest vendor, quality/price ratio was very competitive.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

We had their developers working jointly with our internal teams and our internal project managers in order to develop commonly a budgeting tool that would provide all the features we neeeded to give visibility and predictability to our clients.

What was the team composition?

We worked mainly with Andrey who was taking on most coding with his team and managing the technical side of the project also with our our developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our clients were thrilled to have such a good view into the future of their finances. Some clients were so thrilled by the tool that they wanted it to be adapted from IT budgets to all their operational budgets in order to have the same predictability in all their departments.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Technical project management was flawless, perfect communication and always on time. Andrey has been on top of things and our colleagues really enjoyed working with him.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

It is easy to over promess and often, to underdeliver. With Giant leap you can count on two things: 1- They stick to their word when they say they will deliver and provide you the support you need. 2- Quality is where you expect it to be: in usability and stability.

Are there any areas for improvement?

If I knew of them before, I would have hired them earlier. If that makes sense?

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the founder of a language learning platform.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Giant Leap Lab, and what were your goals?

We hired Giant Leap Lab to take over construction of the platform from a prior developer, fix bugs, and continue building it out.

SOLUTION

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

Another developer suggested working with them.

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

The scope of work is quite vast. The technologies include PHP and more.

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

Mainly one person from the vendor's team work with us (a developer).

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The outcome so far include several thousands users a month as well as recent funding from a foundation to help us grow further.

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

We communicated via Skype. They were responsive and the work was done in a timely way.

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

The flexibility, ease of communication, great value, and talented developers that are able to think critically and come up with novel solutions to difficult tasks. I highly recommend this team for any development tasks.

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

Since Giant Leap Lab is so good, they have a lot of clients and sometimes get busy! So try to schedule with them in advance when possible.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

our company works in building projects in web and mobile applications and managing and developing them.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Giant Leap Lab?

mobile app development

What were your goals for this project?

building, managing and keep developing the project

SOLUTION

How did you select Giant Leap Lab?

on freelance portal

Describe the project in detail.

it is food delivery mobile application

What was the team composition?

taking care completely of the IT side, building and developing the software entirly

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

i am comfortable working with them.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

it was working smooth and they are very helpful

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their cooperation is impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement?

not really