Devima Solutions

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I work at IKYA, and my role is operations manager. I’m based in Oslo, Norway. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Devima?

We brought on Devima to develop a custom video and audio player for us to integrate into an existing website.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They coded the player and integrated it with our website. We intended for the website to be able to play audio and video files. We also wanted it to have live streaming and live conference functionality.

What is the team composition?

I had communication with two team members.

How did you come to work with Devima?

We found the project manager through Upwork, and he found the company we’re reviewing right now. The vendor is actually a subcontractor of the company we found on Upwork. The project manager chose this group because of their technical expertise and ability to efficiently complete a project. 

How much have you invested with them?

We invested around $3,000 USD in the end.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started it in May of 2019 and it was completed in January of 2020.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
 
We don’t have any success metrics, but it seems to be working well. It has greatly improved our ability to do the tasks we were focused on doing with the player. 

However, about half of what we originally wanted out of the project hasn’t been created. Some of the functions we asked for weren’t technically feasible for our budget. If we had known this at the start, it would have been a much shorter and easier process. However, no one identified that until December. Once that was clear, we completed the project the best we could. 

How did Devima perform from a project management standpoint?

This project lasted over a year, and developing a website should never take that long. However, the project manager who isn’t a part of Devima was responsible for communication and deadlines. The issues don’t appear to be a result of the company’s mismanagement or miscommunication. Instead, it was more of a combination of the project manager’s communication and my own communication.

Our primary contact was extremely pleasant to work with and accommodating. He always did his best to accomplish what we needed to get done. He was good at doing what we asked for quickly. But, those tasks never meshed with the entire project, and that’s why it ended up taking so long. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

When they are a subcontractor in a project, communication and deadlines are also their responsibility (even if it’s not their primary responsibility). This may be an area of improvement for them.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder of Zikzak

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Build your travel space

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Devima Solutions to accomplish?

• Develop my MVP
• Understand my needs, but also be able to share their input and best practise
• Be responsive and efficient

SOLUTION

How did you find Devima Solutions?

• Other

Why did you select Devima Solutions over others?

• High ratings
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

What was the size of Devima Solutions’s team?

2-5 Employees

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

I had a design ready to be developed by Devima. Devima presented me with a quote and timeline and 3 references which all came back with honour. After a kickoff they started the development and kept me updated on Slack with a bi-weekly demo on the progress. They were able to think for themselves and involve me with relevant to validate their recommendations or throughly explain whatI had to do. Whenever I had a question Devima was quick to respond, no matter the time and day.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Deliver on the project plan / timeline
• Understand my vision, but also contributing with their expertise

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

100%, I received a Jira project where I could follow progres, together with Slack updates

What was your primary form of communication with Devima Solutions?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They deliver from start to finish.

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

This is not their fault, but I’m charged through Upwork who charges a 5% fee every month, which is a bit annoying.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of (a/an) Software

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Open marketplace connecting early-stage startups to investor.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Devima Solutions to accomplish?

• Build a MVP
• Build a two sided marketplace in 3 months

SOLUTION

How did you find Devima Solutions?

Other

Why did you select Devima Solutions over others?

High ratings

What was the size of Devima Solutions’s team?

2-5 Employees

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

• Build a sign-up / sign in process (LinkedIn and email + verification)
• Build a listing page for startups that include key data and information (text, uploads and links) 
• Build investor profile page and process
• Create filter features for investors based on different criteria
• Automate data requests flow

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• regular updates
• deadlines met

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

I have been regularly kept updated by the team on the progress made. They delivered the different planned milestones on time and were able to increase the production pace when needed.

What was your primary form of communication with Devima Solutions?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email
• Messaging App

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

The help I got in terms of designing the platform when needed.

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

Area for improvement : asking more feedback

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a communication specialist and product manager at a company that provides organizations with staff training, recruitment, organizational research, management solutions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Devima Solutions for developing an AI-based hiring tool.

SOLUTION

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

They were referred to us by our colleague.

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

Devima Solutions joined us a few months before the planned product launch, so they helped to accomplish the tasks we were stuck on. Now they continue to work on further development of the tool.

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

Four people (so far):

• COO
• frontend developer
• backend developer
• QA

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Working hand in hand with Devima Solutions, we‘ve managed to launch our product on time.

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

Devima Solutions team members usually complete tasks in a timely manner, are always available and ready to help in urgent cases. Talking about the tools, we use Slack and Teams for communication, Jira and Confluence to organize tasks.

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

We admire their high flexibility, fast problem-solving, and excellent communication.

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

Many thanks for good work

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We hired Devima Solutions for extra man power on one of our projects.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Work on a monolith system

SOLUTION

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

We hired Devima Solutions :)

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

Backend work with Laravel and Vue.JS

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

One, backend developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They had great work and communication. The CEO was involved and great to deal with.

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

Communication was over channels we chose, great team.

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

CEO's involvement.

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

Nope

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We do IT consulting and project management.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We contracted Devima to extend a custom CRM for one of our clients.

SOLUTION

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

We found them through a refferal.

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

They took on development of the existing custom CRM based on Symphony framework on PHP. Tasks included creating new modules such as well as extending current functionalities.

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

2 PHP/Symphony developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Their main feat was developing a complicated invoicing system that included multi-layered pricing logic based on many variables. This CRM module allowed our client to automate invoice generation and sending. It would be hard to calculate the increase in client productivity, but it definitely was substantial.

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

We communicated directly with lead developer, used Slack and Trello as PM tools. Work was done based on specifications provided by us. Their communication was always timely and constructive.

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

They were able to learn the existing codebase and become productive really fast. This is sometimes hard when working with legacy code. I am highly impressed.

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

At times, they underestimated the time needed for certain tasks, but did their best compensating it with hard work and dedication.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of an online on-demand marketplace

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Devima Solutions to create an online on-demand marketplace from scratch.

SOLUTION

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

We chose Devima Solutions because they are great with communicating and had developed impressive applications in the past

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

Devima Solutions was tasked with creating an online on-demand marketplace, so they needed to create profiles, add products, add images/videos, and integrate with Stripe to accept payments and send payouts.

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

I worked with a total of 7 people from Devima Solutions:

• 1 PM/QA
• 2 frontend devs
• 3 backend devs
• COO

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We finished exactly on time. They were also flexible while working and were able to re-prioritize tasks whenever necessary.

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

We used Confluence and Jira from Atlassian to organize tasks and Slack for communication.

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

They are well prepared, organized, and professional. They are also great with communication.

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

Nope, our experience with them was great. We spent a lot of time evaluating hundreds of different software development companies on Clutch and decided to go with Devima Solutions. We're glad we went with them. Highly recommended.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are building marketplaces for several niche markets

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

we hired Devima to create a web app for one of our new projects. A marketplace in a specific niche market.

SOLUTION

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

Devima was advised to us by the UX company we work with.

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

Translating designs into a working web app. Various database connections, and real-time data, as well as a connection with a headless cms

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

5 people work on the project, a PM, frontend and backend devs, QA

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We now have a fantastic working prototype in our staging environment that we are very happy with. We can't wait for the project to go live

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

The company is hands on, no nonsense and picks things up right away. The communication is short and efficient

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

The time to execute is really fast. They also bring the right results quickly

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

Cant think of one.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I‘m CEO and product owner in an EdTech startup.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed a truly responsive web app

SOLUTION

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

We interviewed a few potential vendors and selected Devima based on skills, availability and value proposition.

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

We provided AdobeXD mockups and defined the UI components to be implemented. We had weekly meetings and on demand chat/calls. Our developers reviewed the deliveries and merged them with our implementations frequently.

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

We worked with three developers, a project manager and the CTO.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The app is not launched yet, but so far we got positive feedback.

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

We tracked deliverables and tasks in Asana, hours with clockify and used slack and calls.

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

High flexibility to find pragmatic solutions for change requests and problems we discovered. Overall, they had a good understanding of our priorities and deadlines.

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

They focused on implementing things as close as possible to the mockups. In some cases there were issues with the design and we would have appreciated more proactive addressing of those issues.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO and Co Founder.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Devima Solutions?

Product Development and QA.

What were your goals for this project?

Build a MVP, set it up and go online.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

I had 3 possible IT agencies but Devima showed in the calls and in the test work that they doing the best work.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

They developed the entire website to React. The front end and back end are made by seniors engineers. Although they setup the backend on AWS.

What was the team composition?

Our project team consists of 2 seniors front end devs, 1 back end engineer, and the Co-Founder who is the project manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The MVP is built perfectly. All our thoughts have been integrated quickly and well! We are looking forward to launch together the platform.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The project management team was impressive! incredible good communication through slack and well understandings of clients.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Fast problem solving and understanding of the needs of the customers. Besides that, top-notch experiences of tech skills.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Great work!