Cyanic Lab

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am CVO of an IT company that has 3 products that require ongoing development, maintenance and updates.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed a support to develop/redesign one of our products and we needed a team that can, not only provide the coding services, but also share the experience and help us to achieve our goals by continuously improving the code and the internal processes.

SOLUTION

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

I have received an email from one of the team members and we have schedule a meeting where I was doing the interview. At that moment I wasn't ready for the interview so when explaining what we need I made few statements that didn't have much sense. All the questions I was asked and logic behind the questions were so exciting and I knew that we are talking to the right people.

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

Project that we are working on is an application that is solving many different problems in the sales process of the complex products. That includes development of the new features and modules, as well as redesign of the existing features and modules. It includes activities on back end and on the front end. Technologies used are: PHP/Laravel, MySQL, NextJS

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

There are two people, software developer and junior software developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Requested features and functionalities were developed in a fast and accurate manner.

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

With us being in the middle of migration between different PM tools, work with Cyanic Lab is great because they are flexible and project oriented. They are proactive and very accurate with the timelines.

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

Cyanic Lab is not just the service delivery company. They actively participated in the brainstorming, and produced very creative and great solutions. They acted as they are part of the company and cared that we do things properly and in the most optimized way.

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

no that I can see at the moment

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Subcontracted this job out to Clutch

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed to create a custom website solution for a client that allowed the client to make learning resources available to subscribers and enable the creation of those resources by contributors.

SOLUTION

How did you select Cyanic Lab and what were the deciding factors?

I had worked with members of Cyanic prior to this job becoming available and was very impressed with their expertise and willingness to go the extra mile when required

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

To begin with Cyanic had no experience of working with headless CMS, however they upskilled very quickly and were able to create a first iteration based on the project brief in a very short time. Multiple iterations have been completed as the client made changes and the site is now ready to go live.

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

Project manager and one programmer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The site is about to go live and so no deliverables are known at this time

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

Google Docs were our primary method of communication RE the business plan

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

Very professional, willing to listen, good command of English and committed to completing the job, HIGHLY recommend working with them

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

I'd say a more structured communication time for updates BUT generally, when we couldn't communicate it was more my fault than theirs

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the owner of a software development company. We are developing web services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our client's eCommerce site was over six years old. Due to missing in-house developers, we hired a developer from Cyanic Lab to help implement the UI and backend part of the application together with our in-house developer. The goals were to implement functionalities of the current application, separate UI and backend to make further development easier and make UI lightning fast and modern.

SOLUTION

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

The vendor contacted us directly. Experience and communication skills were significant factors.

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

The vendor joined the ongoing project. The developer was given a short introduction to the application. Work was given as JIRA tickets. Key deliverables have been backend and frontend task implementations. Our technologies are PHP Lumen Laraval, React and MySQL.

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

One person as a developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The application is still developing, but the deliverables have been excellent.

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

We use Slack, JIRA, and Confluence Wiki for communication and task sharing. Independent working culture.

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

They demonstrate excellent communication and programming skills.

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

Not really

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CTO, we help ideas grow by providing tech solutions to our customers

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Cyanic Lab is helping us developing a CRM app for our end client.

SOLUTION

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

We had an interview together with their team and decided to go with them based on my own experience in tech.

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

We delivered a requirement list and are discussing with their developer on a daily basis about current work, problems, solutions etc. Tech used, React Frontend and Node backend

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

one Project Manager and one developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They've been consistent, professional, and communicative.

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

We setup a written daily start and end in Slack with current development to follow the process.

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

They are positive, proactive and has no prestige. Gives solution ideas but changes if other solution is given in discussion.

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

No.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a consulting firm focusing on data visualization services. I am the CTO of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Cyanic Lab?

We are developing a dashboard prototype and Cyanic Lab helped us develop some of the pages

SOLUTION

How did you select Cynaic Lab and what were the deciding factors?

We meet in a confluence and decided to give a try.

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

We need to build a dashboard with customized chart and filtering function over an experimental backend api. We used React for the frontend and charting is done in d3. The experimental backend is in GraphQL and we used urql as client.

How many resources from the Cynaic Lab team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We have 1 developer from Cyanic Lab with us.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Due to the nature of prototyping, the goal and scope changes during the project. However, Cyanic Lab managed to stay in line with us and deliver.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Communication was good, we have short daily meetings and Cyanic Lab is flexible with the meeting schedule.

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

Good communication with decent code quality.

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

Not much, we only had a pretty short collaboration, but we are interested in future collaborations.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO and CTO of Web and Software Development Company based in Europe

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Frontend and API Development

SOLUTION

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

Good CV's and also visible finished Projects.

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

React App as Frontend for a WordPress CMS Backend.

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

2 Persons, Developer and Projekt Manament

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Very transparent and reliable on a weekly base

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

Tools we use is WhatsApp, Asana, Toggl, Github very fast responses.

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

After our first week, it's been easy to find trust in this company. 

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

For now i am very satisfied

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Call center and marketing.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Creating a custom CRM application.

SOLUTION

How did you select Cyanic Lab and what were the deciding factors?

Done work in the past, easy to work with, and budgets.

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

This is an update of a current product that we added a new app, development, and modules to make a custom product.

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

Two developers and a project manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

This is an ongoing development project, but I can say we been able to add most features we required on this project to date.

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

We have been using Skype, and Google Docs as the primary tools. This enabled very fast responses on any requests

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

They are professional, good listeners, and offer good comments about requests, and committed to finishing the project. Great guys overall.

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

We started this project with another internal team. That team should have had a much better projection, scope of work and diagram, to better manage the overall projects communication and features