ROCKETECH

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an executive at ITSphere

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

A medical tool for analyzing people's illnesses by a simple photo.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• After an unsuccessful interaction with the previous team, we were looking for a serious and reliable tech partner capable of taking on an innovative R&D project. The first try resulted in financial losses and didn’t bring any outcomes — neither a working model nor code. Our product is a breakthrough web tool that, based on a dataset collected from medical institutions, generates disease patterns and determines a diagnosis.

SOLUTION

How did you find ROCKETECH?

Referral

Why did you select ROCKETECH over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from ROCKETECH were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

I'm a business principal. I have been in IT for more than 10 years. I have run and worked in many startups. Because of our bad experience working with the previous team, we started to look for another team. I was in charge of replacing the previous team and talked with founders and investors. I’m working with investors and I was revising ROCKETECH's performance and results from the startup’s founder.

The Rocketech team started with a discovery sprint to analyze the existing data set and shape the strategy for building such a product. They initiated a recruiting process specifically for our project — our team was hired exclusively for us. They also conducted the process review a few times. 

While going from the pre-development to the development project stage, Rocketech built all the necessary processes and established development standards. Our main challenge is the breakthrough approach we needed to find to build our product. It’s a combination of 3 types of neural networks and computer vision technology.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

After only 2.5 months, the Rocketech team managed to reach an accuracy level of 86%. They found a way to optimize and balance the project cost to achieve impressive results with limited resources. It’s an ongoing project, progressing steadily and successfully. Recently, we’ve engaged third-party experts to verify our research strategy. A mobile app is among near-future objectives.

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

They do it in stages. We start with a discovery sprint. The recruitment and pre-development processes are followed by the project’s kick-off. We got very big results in 2.5 months — a model which provided 86% accuracy. This is an R&D project and they are providing results every two weeks, we push them to give more transparency and they provide it with tools.

What was your primary form of communication with ROCKETECH?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

What is impressive is their transparency and flexibility in everything they provide.

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

In an ideal world, we would like to improve development speed. However, we also understand that it’s a first-in-class R&D project. There’s no sufficient scientific research available out there yet to incorporate it into our product development.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the VP / CIO of XstremeMD

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Remote healthcare.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Application development
• Application support

SOLUTION

How did you find ROCKETECH?

Referral

Why did you select ROCKETECH over others?

• Referred to me
• Other

What was the size of ROCKETECH’s team?

2-5 Employees

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

Custom application development with both front and back end support. Also provided SDLC setup and support.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Application development moving through development servers to production with bi-weekly scrum items getting regular deployment.

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

The items are delivered in a timely manner, and issues and delays are communicated effectively.

What was your primary form of communication with ROCKETECH?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email
• Messaging App

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

Very easy to work with, knowledgeable and communicated well for project needs and issues.

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

Within the time that we have worked together, there have not been any issues or complaints that were not expected with on boarding a new project.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

company F2B TECH, position CTO PBG

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Web service development, project PBG

SOLUTION

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

Knowledge\awareness Communication Workflow\Relationships Value from interaction

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

They started with us on the idea stage and constantly keep working with us and implementing new and new funcatilies. They analyze different systems like Camunda, Seldon, design BPMN process and making the code in Java.

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

6 people, 1 project manager and 5 programmers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Good and solid team. ROCKETECH diving very professionally in every case or scenario of our product and operate like there is no any outsourcing. It help us to build not only MVP but and fundraise and move far together The project is released and we are generating new features and making new iterations

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

We had a release every two weeks sprint. Some small iterations that guide us from one small MVP to an other. It’s very hard to establish that well and ROCKETECH is doing quite great and very consistent

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

They provided interesting ideas and made the right decisions. We constantly changed our priorities and scope and design. ROCKETECH very adoptable in terms of funding balance between business side and tech side.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CPO of Zuzan. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

ROCKETECH provided services for the development of a Timekeeper web service, which helps to schedule meetings with 2 or more participants.

SOLUTION

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

Reviews, recommendations, portfolio. We were looking for an experienced company that is committed to contract quickly the necessary team.

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

They wrote BRD, User Stories, prioritized tasks, created product design, formed sprints, then interacted daily. Developed a web application. They worked for 3 months (from February to May 2022). The project is done and now we keep moving on our own.

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

Front, back, web designer, scrum

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Expectations from cooperation were met, the main functionality of the product was developed and successfully launched

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

Fast, attentive to details, quick support. Miro, Jira, Google docs, Figma

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

The skills of their BA and scrum master were impressive. Both of them are strong professional. And the fact that they provided a wonderful designer who understood everything on an intuitive level.

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

We worked in sprints and held video meetings. In almost all cases, they met the sprint deadlines. Several dates were missed, but this concerns joint interaction.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I´m the owner of a consulting firm. We provide consultancy services on business structuring for prospective set ups including drafting of business plans, business forecasts and organisational charts, identification of new business opportunities, etc.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Rocketech to develop a marketplace platform for the financial sector.

SOLUTION

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

We searched on Google for web developers and shortlisted 3. After interviewing them, we chose this vendor based on their organization, experience and availability.

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

We had a kick-off meeting to present the project to the team and discuss the goals and objectives. After we agreed with the budget, the team started working on the project. Nine months later, after several iterations and weekly meetings, their team delivered the marketplace platform as requested.

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

7 people in total.

• 1 Business analyst
• 1 UX/UI Designer
• 1 Frontend developer
• 1 Backend developer
• 1 DevOps
• 1 Scrum Master
• 1 QA Engineer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

My experience with Rocketech was very positive. Rocketech has a wonderful team with very competent and skilled people.

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

We had weekly team meetings where we could interact with the entire team and discuss the progress of the project.

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

Their organization and availability were impressive.

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

None.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CIO - team management

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire ROCKETECH?

For Core system development and Media service development

SOLUTION

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

Good reputation and feedback from another clients

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

System for online conferences: Realisation of MVP, help with realisation core system.

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

6 frontend developers, 1 devops, 1 designer, 1 analytic

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We increased speed of development in Company

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very effective

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

I like their company's processes. They're very good.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO at EveryTale

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to develop a mobile app to compete with UFS league

SOLUTION

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

I already worked with them in my previous company

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

In the shortest possible time guys provide a preliminary assessment based on the results of which we started the Discovery sprint. The guys took into account all our wishes for the choice of technologies including Flutter.

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

business analyst, backend developer, frontend developer, tester, scrum master

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project has just finished developing so numbers yet to come

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

Communication was mostly by Zoom calls. Guys also were kind enough to give me access to daily scrum meetings.

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

They have unique approach to time tracking that saves us a lot of money compared to other outsourcers

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

Everything was great so i just wish them to continue improve naturally

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

QB is a Russian-based self-storage on-demand startup. I am the co-founder and CEO.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

I was in an urgent need for setting up new backend infrastructure, as the old one was prone to attacks.

SOLUTION

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

Initial source was friend referral. The deciding factor was the time in which we could start the project and the level of staff.

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

Setting up the infrustructure, including AWS setup, Jenkins, building a mirroring stage server and optimising costs. Another dimension – backend PHP development, rebuilding the logic, transferring internal administration panel from Python solution to PHP.

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

3 main roles – DevOps (senior), Backend (senior), QA (middle)

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project is ongoing

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

The communication is great, everyone from the team was behaving like internal employees, ready to dive in an solve the business problems, not just closing the tasks.

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

Their process' speed, cost-effectiveness, and communication skills have all been at the highest level

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

A bit more structured reporting on tasks.

BACKGROUND

Slide Global Ltd. – a networking application

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

To get an understanding of the technical challenges within and after the MVP stage

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Building a target aiming MVP for our product

How did you come to work with them?

We connected on the WebSummit 2019 in Lisboa

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Rocketech shared their enormous experience and provided a great support to achieve our goals.

How did the team perform from a project management standpoint?

Agile and very communicative

What did you find most impressive about them?

That the whole team worked as missionaries instead of a mere service provider was impressive.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, not for now. Maybe english

Any advice for potential customers?

Just openly communicate

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a CEO at a company (Leandev/Leanconsult) which delivers custom tailor made digital products to our clients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire ROCKETECH?

We hire Rocketech team for a number of our projects and products, including Judo App, loyalty apps, fintech platforms and other.

What were your goals for this project?

The goal for Judo App was to introduce a new kind of digital marketplace for our customers and partners to attract venture capital and users.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

By word of mouth.

Describe the project in detail.

Judo App is a digital marketplace for judo sportsmen and coaches which monetize on additional goods and services for sportsmen to conduct training activities.

What was the team composition?

Team composition included me as product owner, one backend developer (PHP Laravel), one iOS developer, android developer (on my side), scrum master/team lead and account manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The app backend was built extremely quick and we started to fill the app prototype with real users data to make it a full-blown product as fast as possible.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The workflow was quite effective, we were working with weekly sprints using Jira and Bitbucket, with daily Skype calls, weekly planning and retrospective analysis.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The most impressive about the company is the team and key people. They were always in touch with us, constantly giving feedback and trying to solve challenges.

Very friendly and proactive position on business level, product level and communications. Also, important to mention – the ability to allocate resources and people fast in case of demanding situation.

Are there any areas for improvement?

We see Rocketech as one of our lifetime partners for development of complex cross-platform digital services and we understand that in any company, team, communication, there's always a room for improvement, But at the moment our brothers-in-arms at Rocketech give us extreme value at a good pace and we will continue to scale our product development business together with them.