Wizy Vietnam

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are cloud and web software developers and deliver high-quality solutions. I am the Chief Technology Officer.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Wizy Vietnam?

We started the collaboration with Wizy Vietnam to extend our development capacity.

What were your goals for this project?

Develop an internal web application for our customers.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

They were recommended to us by a former staff member.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

They helped us develop an internal web application. This took about 8 weeks. We gave them specifications and they were able to implement the app without any problems.

What was the team composition?

The team had about 3 people. One lead architect from our side, one developer and also a project manager from Wizy Vietnam.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The app has not been deployed to the public so far, so it might be to early to measure any impact. We learned how to act as customer and lead a project with external collaboration.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Project management was done in collaboration with Wizy Vietnam and was very impressive. We had weekly status updates and overall a very good and professional team communication.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They were able to adapt our specifications and guidelines and get into new technologies without any problem.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There is very little they could improve and that's not worth mentioning.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the co-founder and partner of a management consulting company in Switzerland. We make digital transformation work and implement software projects together with our partners all over the world.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Wizy Vietnam?

We needed a cost-effective partner with in-depth security knowledge to help us develop our security assessment web application.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Security Selfie is a web application that enables small and medium enterprises to get an assessment of their security. We detailed our requirements for the app, and Wizy Vietnam used Node.js technology to develop the web application as a whole and design the frontend from scratch. They also integrated different security components, like identity and access management.

IT heads or CEOs fill out a questionnaire, and Security Selfie provides them with security recommendations and best practices. Right now it is a minimum viable product; we are testing the market and making small fixes to the product.

What is the team composition?

We worked with two full-time developers, and they had a project manager for the technology side.

How did you come to work with Wizy Vietnam?

I had done projects with their lead developer at the previous company he worked for. I continued to work with him after he founded Wizy Vietnam because I was familiar with his skills and the quality of his work.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent about $6,000 a month, which has come to roughly $150,000 over two years.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began working together in 2016, and are currently fine-tuning the app based on market response.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They were very reliable and always delivered on our requirements. They provided good quality designs and development at a reasonable price.

How did Wizy Vietnam perform from a project management standpoint?

We had an internal product owner that acted as a single point of contact for the project, but Wizy Vietnam performed very well when it came to managing the development teams. We used general Agile project management processes, such as daily scrums and standups for project updates. We defined the project requirements on Jira, had some communication over email, but mostly used Confluence for collaboration.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They could easily provide additional development resources. They have good connections with specialists and if we made a request for a particular skill set, they were able to bring the right people onto the team quickly.

Are there any areas they could improve?

When the project involves leading-edge technology, instead of the standard applications, they would benefit from having a deeper understanding of technology architecture to assess the impact of new technology.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I would suggest having an internal product owner that is operationally involved in the project.