ColoredCow Consulting

Please describe your company and your position there.

Webicom Inc is an edtech company who is working towards building online education platforms for both 1-to-1 online education and group class setup as well. I am co-founder and technical expert at Webicom Inc.

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

We started with our first project WebMentor4You platform. It is a website and web application development work. Which went quite well and we are continuously working with ColoredCow on new features for this project. This project is already live. Other project we started is ClassroomO which is a education marketplace where tutors/institutes can create online entities and use our platform to manage all thier courses with online live classes. This project is also live now. We are working on new enhancements aggressively on this project. We want to be the one of a kind market place for educational institutes to give them ability to transform completely into hybrid model.

How did you select ColoredCow Consulting and what were the deciding factors?

I knew ColoredCow from one of our software testing meetups. And I have seen the working style of the team and met core team few times as part of my software testing meetup. When I decided to start the project ColoredCow was my obvious choice as they are best at what they do.

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

Our website and webApp development process started with kickoff meeting and divided the project into milestones. All of the deliverables were executed effectively and in timely manner.

Our website and webApp uses following tech:

• WordPress
• WooCommerce
• Laravel
• Php
• Stripe and RazorPay payment gateways

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

At all times there were atleast 3 people working including 1 project manager and 2 developers. But there were times when more people were pulled in to meet the milestones.

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

One of the measurable outcome is that our platforms are live and running. We have started with small set of users and working towards enhancing platforms to target more users.

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

We had weekly meeting to discuss previous weeks work and upcoming work for next week. We used github for code collaboration and google suite for docs, meetings etc. I liked the project management style of splitting the deliverables and set small goals to achieve. This worked well for us.

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

Open communication. We like the way each member of the team openly communicates and tells things to us upfront. This helped us planning and executing our end of tasks very well.

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

We had initial bugs on our lunch; but those were fixed quickly on priority basis. I would like ColoredCow to invest and focus more on software testing. And it is in general what i find most of consulting companies are lagging.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO and managing director of a philanthropy organization.

What challenge were you trying to address with ColoredCow Consulting?

We offer pro-bono consulting and toolbox services. In order to scale our program, we wanted to develop our own project management platform that would allow our team to manage the program and scale it.

What was the scope of their involvement?

ColoredCow developed our website in 2018. In 2019, we worked with them on multiple platforms. These are largely database management systems that allow for data capture, easy analytics, and reporting. One of the platforms was used in terms of scaling our operation. We designed and conceptualized all the sites. ColoredCow currently helps with the maintenance of the project management platform. 

What is the team composition?

We work with a full-stack developer, a design person, and a backend developer.

How did you come to work with ColoredCow Consulting?

Their founder reached out to me on LinkedIn. I traveled to Delhi on a business trip, and we connected to understand what they were looking to do. It took 6–7 months to identify common ground because we are in different industries. We needed someone who understood the philanthropic sector requirements — especially for charities — because they often don’t have huge budgets.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent about $30,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in April 2018 and the work is ongoing.

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

ColoredCow is a young team that’s very supportive, cooperative, and open to client feedback. They understand the primary function of any platform that we want to build and bring a lot of leanness to it. 

We like their work because it’s so clean and easy for our end-users to use. My team is completely satisfied with the portal that’s largely used by us. We’ve also gone on to build another project that is actually for the market, which is in the adoption stage.

How did ColoredCow Consulting perform from a project management standpoint?

The governance is pretty well set. They follow timelines and make sure the prototyping and beta testing is done.

What did you find most impressive about them?

ColoredCow is good at building the websites, mobile apps, project management platform, membership platform, and CRM components that we need.  

Are there any areas they could improve?

The UI/UX is very essential and needs to be good. For any technology developer, the behavioral nudges are so important and determine the success of any mobile application of any product that they create.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

You don’t want a product that is so heavy on features. They have a sense of just the right amount of content, the right kind of design, and the ease of navigation. We’re a satisfied partner.