ROCKETECH

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the founder of a social media service that connects users by phone and text.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

I had specific ideas for what I wanted, but a lot of details had to be worked through. I'm a one-man show so I needed a team who could interpret my vision, break it down into individual steps and then execute it.

SOLUTION

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

I was looking for a mix of technical ability and value. I wanted to feel like I was in good hands. After speaking with Alex, I felt like he understood the scope of work and I had confidence that his team could execute the vision.

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

During the discovery sprint I walked through all of my requirements with the business analyst, Yulia. Each piece of the website was handed over to a designer and we worked through the designs until they were approved. We decided to use Twilio for the calling and texting services. Yulia broke down each item into tasks for the developer. Since then, it has been a process of making decisions regarding specific functionality and reviewing the work of the developers.

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

I primarily worked with the business analyst, Yulia, although I attended sprint reviews with the whole team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Having had no experience with development, the process was longer than I imagined. But, looking back I also don't think it could have been completed any faster. The website is currently in a beta stage while we are addressing CRO issues. But I feel like the process is strong and I know that when they complete the tasks they agree to and I have confidence in the integrity of the product.

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

Rocketech recruits talent and deals with absolutely everything on their end. They set up all the project management software and track everything. I follow along, and use my own tools as well, but I usually communicate verbally. (or Telegram)

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

They are very organized even when I am not. They keep the trains running on time and they are able to translate my ideas into reality.

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

I think we were all optimistic when we started the project about the amount of time that it would ultimately take.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I a Founder of Filiko, an enterprise software company focused in the construction space.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

I brought completed wireframes for developing a complicated Enterprise Project Mangment software. Goal was to develop MVP.

SOLUTION

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

I came to Rocketech with wireframes for a complicated enterprise Saas project. What made me choose them was their attention to details in developing the scope and their transparency of how spending would work.

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

Scope of work was to create a dashboard/portfolio page, which led into a gantt chart with resource loadable activities. Other portion included user management sections from the hamburger menu

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

5 ppl team:

• PM,
• scrum master,
• backend dev,
• frontend dev,
• QA/QC.

We met weekly during backlog meetings and held update meetings to track progress every two weeks.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

General feedback is quite positive, I will continue to work Rocketech in moving to the next stage to get to MMP

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

Scrum based, they create tasks based on story points. Their burn rate & metrics are incredibly transparent

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

Transparency and communication. Also now that the first phase of the project is done the amount of support they provided was exceptional. I feel that they are really invested in Filiko's success

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

nope!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Founder and Executive Director of Grid Capital Guernsey Limited, first worldwide online brokerage firm that allows its clietns wide range of investment products including securities dealing, cryptos, IPOs as well as cash management and structured products

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We decided to create a modern online trading application that would allow our clients to deal securities and cryptos on one unified platform and to manage their funds including international payments right from their brokerage accounts

SOLUTION

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

We selected Rocketech after a thorough and long review process of different firms all over the world from India to United States. The clue factor for us became their ability to provide us an access into the development process so that we could control and moderate it through the lifecycle of the project

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

We developed iOs and Web Applications at the same time. For the Web we used React as the newest technology.

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

One business analyst, one scrum master, two back-end developers, and two developers for each iOS and Web solutions.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Within six month we managed to deliver a ready-to-go product and integrate it into our systems. We keep on developing several modules after initial product release

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

Project manager keeps in contact with us 24/7 delivering the results of the tasks and collecting feedback from us and our customers. Once in two weeks we have a full team gathering delivering to us the result of a certain completed scope of works.

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

ROCKETECH specialists work as your dedicated team as if they are directly hired by your HR manager. During the lifecycle they are fully devoted to your project that leads to better understanding of the product and the product owner and better performance as a team itself.

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

There is always a space for improvement but I can not recognize what could be done here :)

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

It took some calibration but ROCKETECH has a good system going and the pace and agility of the development team is a thing of marvel.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with ROCKETECH?

We wanted to increase cost efficiency and customer satisfaction.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

For our application for our Saas platform, we needed an intelligent team who would be able to understand the functionalities we need to create a world-class application. Rocketech provided us with top-notch work in functionality development, testing and maintenance and bug fixing. Their work was incredibly good.

What is the team composition?

We've worked with lead BE, FE, QA, SM, BA, DevOps, UE, UI designer, founder were very supportive and responsive.

How did you come to work with ROCKETECH?

We did online research and spoke to their past clients.

How much have you invested in them?

We've spent in the range of $25,000-$50,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with them in April 2021, and the engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

We've seen a positive increase in client happiness and improvement in timeline delivery. The team functions seamlessly like they are part of our in-house team.

How did ROCKETECH perform from a project management standpoint?

They've been excellent.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They’re responsive, which is very important, and also understand and are flexible with our needs. I’m also very impressed because I have worked with three other development companies, and the communication with ROCKETECH is outstanding.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I feel that the administrative billing process is complicated.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Hyperboloid, co-founder, digital producer

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Sberbank crowdsourcing

SOLUTION

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

By interviews with devs

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

This app was designed to make one social tool for collecting different ideas from deferent employee, deferent representatives, verticals and departments of biggest bank. Good ideas after voting are implementing into bank and improve its process in organisation, it’s environment and people motivation. ROCKETECH helped us to develop mobile app, version for watches, tablets and other smartphones.

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

Was 5 people, such as Senior Developers, QA, DevOps.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We like that ROCKETECH always stay in touch and reply on any issue in maxim one hour. It’s very important for us because at that time were over 150 000 people that was going to use the app. After finishing this project we had multiple other projects together with ROCKETECH.

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

We used Jira, confluence, bitbucket. ROCKETECH has many tools that optimise time of delivery. They are open and result oriented. They invite us in themes environment and guide us through whole process of development till ready apps.

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

Themes process of work. They improve it all the time and become better. It’s good that they are making development in partner way so we are managing together resources, tasks, budget and other things. This is the reason why we are working on multiple projects together.

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

Everything was good, but maybe in future will be good to add some how into the team composition Product owners because maybe we can give more funds for ROCKETECH to mange full cycle of development. Because so far they require product owners from client side. All other things are brilliant and just scale up the model and team.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the owner a company

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Financial Portfolio Managment System

SOLUTION

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

We searched online for web developers in our area. And after interviewing we chose ROCKETECH.

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

They did Financial Management Web-Platform. Our project is about management of financial portfolio our clients. They start with first MVP of platform, after we have decided to make rebranding and add extra functionality and all the way ROCKETECH support us. We are working in dedicated team mode it means that they provide all expertise and well established process of development that brings results fast. And now is going third iteration and the team still with us.

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

10-15

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We would like to thank team of ROCKETECH. They did Financial Management Web-Platform for us. Completed quickly and efficiently. Yes, there were some difficult tasks, but the developers quickly found solutions. We worked with a dedicated and expert team with a well-established development process that brings results fast. We move on the project together.

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

We had daily stand-ups with their project manager, who communicated with the rest of the team.

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

They delivered a professional and easy-to-use financial platform for our customers.

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

None.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Biella is a company that exclusively represents factories and brands on the territory of Russia with affordable prices and unique technologies. I'm CEO of Biella ltd.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We were looking for a reliable partner with whom to continue the development of our site, previously we developed it internally on our own. Years passed and we realized that we needed a professional approach and a complete redesign of the website and our processes within the company. ROCKETECH took over all the work and continue to develop and support us now.

SOLUTION

How did you select ROCKETECH and what were the deciding factors?

We held a tender and the company's employees chose this vendor

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

We started with a complete redesign of our website and attracted as many participants as possible to this process. ROCKETECH had a hard time because the approval process was quite complicated, we are grateful for their professionalism and patience with all our wishes, because they were taken into account 100%. We started with the design and the first mockups.

After we agreed on the logo, the brand book, which we still use and consider it to be well made. Next, we had a website design that took a long time due to a huge number of additional edits and functionality that we wanted to add.

After this, a big stage that continues to this day is the development of the site, the implementation and improvement of the work of our internal business processes and the site as well.

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

There were many of them. Partner of the company, PM, BA, 3 Developers, DevOps, Designers and Art Directors and two QA for tests.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

I can say for sure that we would not have continued working if this vendor did not keep the agreement and did not issue the project exactly on time! We have been working for several years and always ROCKETECH has found various ways to solve our non-standard tasks.

I think the main reason why we continue to work with them is because we constantly see their skill, expertise, knowledge and advice on how to do something that will work immediately, not in a few years, but in a month or earlier, in our current realities this makes ROCKETECH our irreplaceable partner.

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

It was difficult for us to get started because we had a lot of ideas, but the guys were able to find an approach to us and structure us. They work with a very new approach, which was not familiar to us before - Scrum. We were skeptical at first, then we saw its advantages and realized that this is the right approach that gives an accurate and high-quality result.

Colleagues use all possible online tools to capture our ideas both within the framework of the call and at meetings, I'm talking about Jira, Confluence, Skype and etc. Many of these tools and approaches we have further incorporated into our internal processes.

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

They clearly recognize the problems and solve them with us, they have no boundaries in front of us and they try to work as transparently as possible. For us it was at first a very risky approach, but then we appreciated its value and now we understand why it is much more correct to share the risks, and not pass them on to someone.

They have an impressive team and I very much appreciate in them that they do not raise prices, but try to find ways of interaction such that they remain much more profitable for us than keeping this entire team on the staff of our company!

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

I think it will be useful to add a model when ROCKETECH also provides the product owner. Because now we are working on a dedicated team model, which assumes that we are the owners of the product and we set tasks.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the creative director for an email marketing company that primarily services small businesses. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with ROCKETECH?

We wanted to develop a more advanced email marketing customization product that made it easy to create sales lists. They helped us with the development.  

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

The web app contains contact storage, link tracking, and an advanced field system for emails. We’re still in the first phase of development, planning on entering a second phase following their current work.

They’re using Node.js and React to develop the product, and their design team works using Figma. 

How did you come to work with ROCKETECH?

We knew we wanted to work with a Ukraine-based IT company, so we turned to Clutch to find companies that would be a good fit. There, we found about ten companies and started conversations with their representatives. 

It was an easy decision because ROCKETECH understood our needs immediately. Even in our early conversations, they provided us with great suggestions that we ended up using for the project. That was very attractive to us. 

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent about $80,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked on the project from January–August 2020. Our collaboration was paused due to the pandemic, but we plan on starting up again in the future.  

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Their development skills were strong, and outputs were as expected. We didn’t experience any significant issues with them. Both the results and workflow met our expectations.  

How did ROCKETECH perform from a project management standpoint?

We worked in sprints and had our meetings over the phone to discuss progress. In almost all cases, they completed as necessary tasks according to the sprint deadlines. There were only one or two task completion dates that were missed. 

We’d do a demo with them on Mondays and plan for the week following the latest demo. The process met our expectations. We used Atlassian and Confluence for communication. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

They can take our loose ideas and form them into meaningful deliverables. We were able to expand the usefulness of our product based on their input. We found that very attractive.

Are there any areas they could improve?

The initial cost estimation was not completely accurate, however. We had to spend more than we thought. They could improve in cost estimations. Additionally, it would be helpful for them to verify that all team members are technically capable of taking on certain tasks. We had to take a developer off the project because they didn’t have the skill set we were looking for. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Make sure that you clearly present your ideas and arrive at reasonable cost estimates.  

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m a project-manager at Rich Peach Media. Our team specializes in the development and advertising of mobile apps.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with the vendor?

We worked on the creation of a mobile application for measuring the speed of the Internet connection (WI-FI, 3G, LTE, etc.). It was important for us that the application worked correctly and was convenient for our audience.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Rochetech developed the design and the app for us. Separately, I’ll note the design, we were delighted!

What is the team composition?

Business analyst, iOS developer, designer and QA.

How did you come to work with them?

We’ve already developed one project with them and were pleased with the cooperation.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The app has been successfully added to the AppStore and we are getting great reviews.

How did the team perform from a project management standpoint?

Fine! I was given all access to view task statuses. All communications were carried out during working hours in working chats.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Structuredness and readiness to independently solve emerging problems.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Perhaps a little more critical of the deadline. But it depends on the client's requirements :)

Any advice for potential customers?

Rocketek is an excellent team that you can safely entrust the development of your app or other project.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the founder and CEO of a health and fitness app. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with ROCKETECH?

We were looking to revamp our application. We had worked with another developer, and the quality was poor.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They restructured the frontend design of an iOS app and added functionality. They changed the look and the signup process and added a feature that allows users to add friends and compare stats.

They changed the coding from PHP to a very complex, more modern coding language. They also developed a backend portal that allows us to analyze the users.

What is the team composition?

We worked with Alexi (Co-Partner), Igor (Business Analyst), Yatoslav (Sr. iOS Developer), and Anton (Designer).

How did you come to work with ROCKETECH?

When we were looking to replace our developing partner, a friend recommended I look offshore. We found a few companies on Clutch, and felt this team had the best proposal within our budget.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent $13,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began working together around July 2020, and it’s ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? 

We are hoping to launch in early 2021. To assess their work, we look at how well they meet our quality standards and whether or not they've delivered on time. There have been some delays, some of which could’ve been avoided.

How did ROCKETECH perform from a project management standpoint?

Their project manager meets basic expectations. They work in an agile environment and include the client in their process. Communication has been pretty good.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They met all the demands we put on them and are very transparent in what they're working on. It is a good working relationship.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Their project manager needs more experience. They could have tended to details that would have helped us avoid some of the delays. 

I would also like a cost-reimbursable contract, or an equity-driven contract, rather than one driven by time and materials.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

They are a great team to work with. I would suggest a cost-reimbursable contract with a fixed fee for early delivery and penalties for delays.