Jump24

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head Of Engineering, Jump24 of Social Sync

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We build software for the charity sector.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Jump24 to accomplish?

• Build a complex customer engagement feature.
• Build a complex API integration
• Build some UI components

SOLUTION

How did you find Jump24?

• Referral

Why did you select Jump24 over others?

• Great culture fit
• Referred to me

How many teammates from Jump24 were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

To spec and build out a fairly complex user integration and engagement feature from scratch basing it from a design, complete with external API integrations, and integration into our Svelte UI.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• The primary feature was brought to life as a functional and tested piece of work.
• Functional tests were done and provided as standard.
• We are now closer to releasing this feature than we would have been without their support.

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

Communication was brilliant and consistent with both the team members assigned to us and Adam who was managing our integration with them. They responded to the brief and requirements with a level of professionalism and knowledge that we greatly appreciated and as well as building the deliverables helped us shape architectural decisions key to the future of the project.

What was your primary form of communication with Jump24?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

This is the first "embedded" contracting organisation we've worked with and we were very impressed with their knowledge of the sector and help in getting us what we needed even when we didn't really know it ourselves.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Jump24 could have done differently?

Not that I can think of - any shortfalls mainly came down to our project management structures.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of Engineering of Covesta Limited.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're creating a network of angel networks to help companies seamlessly raise capital.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Jump24 to accomplish?

• Provide development resource
• Build our MVP
• Provide Laravel expertise

SOLUTION

How did you find Jump24?

Online Search

Why did you select Jump24 over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fits our budget
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Jump24 were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

We required development resources to help build the MVP for our SaaS platform. We required Jump24 to: 

• Analyse plans for our MVP
• Provide development resources to help: 
  • Build out the Laravel back-end 
  • Build the ReactJS front-end 
  • Write clean, tested code
  • Meet an aggressive deadline

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Comfortably met our deadline
• Code was well-written and well-tested
• Stakeholders were extremely happy with the resulting application

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

We comfortably met our deadline for the MVP. During the entire development, we had direct communication with the Jump24 team

What was your primary form of communication with Jump24?

In-Person Meeting

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

Jump24 described themselves as Laravel experts, and this was 100% accurate. Their team is fully engaged with the Laravel ecosystem, which is reflected in the quality of their work.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Jump24 could have done differently?

None that I can think of