Fulcrum Solutions

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Managing Director / Founder of CTO Teammate

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

CTO Teammate provides Fractional CTO services to small to medium businesses across the U.S typically involving technology management, software development, product management, and cloud engineering.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Provide critical software development leadership and capacity
• Achieve software release dates driven by key business milestones

SOLUTION

How did you find Fulcrum Solutions?

Other

Why did you select Fulcrum Solutions over others?

Pricing first our budget, Good value for cost, Company values aligned, Other

What was the size of Fulcrum Solutions’s team?

6-10 Employees

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

Highly complex Business Services platform for one of our customers. Includes many innovative features that are firsts for the specific marketplace and industry. Fulcrum Solutions provided outstanding technical CTO services, collaborative management of a hybrid onshore/offshore team, and a large number of Development team members for Project Management, Front-End, Back-End, Database, Mobile, and Software QA.

Fulcrum Solutions provided critical architecture design, collaborative development management, and development capacity to meet key business drive releases dates.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Software Releases to critical schedules
• Software Quality

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

Fulcrum Solutions is highly collaborative and locks on to Client goals and objectives in a partnership approach. They respond creatively with plans and approaches to meet business critical deadlines.

They essentially become an extension of the Client team participating as a valued member of Development management and with their Development team members working in an integrated project with client development team members. Key dates and budgets were achieved.

What was your primary form of communication with Fulcrum Solutions?

Virtual Meeting, Email or Messaging App

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

Quality of top Leadership via Froilan Mendoza. Very hands-on, excellent client relationship skills, and a sincere drive to partner with Customers on goals and objectives. Offshore development team members are strong in English speaking skills as well as technical skills. Communication is very open, proactive, and transparent focused on achieving client goals.

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

Continue to grow and add skilled team members to be able to support surge demands from Clients,

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the owner of an online platform that uses data science to provide personalized beauty and skincare product recommendations.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our website's front-end needed an update to match the strong back-end that powers our recommendations. The recommendations themselves needed to be more streamlined, easy for consumers to click through and purchase, and with a consumer intake quiz that thoroughly gathered relevant information to provide strong recommendations.

SOLUTION

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

I selected the Fulcrum team having worked with a small subset of their team in a previous capacity. I really liked that working with the team, I would have access to a strong Product Owner, Project Manager, experienced Developers, and very creative UI/UX personnel.

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

We had a kick-off meeting where I shared my vision for the project, which the team then took back and built out the different sprints where they would build each subset of the website. We then met weekly to review their progress, and this was always visible on the Dev site where I could keep track of progress.

The team also created wireframes for each page and functionality that I signed off on before build, which allowed us to really align on how something would look and work before they built it out completely. The environment was very collaborative and allowed for the site to be built seamlessly.

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

We worked with a Product Owner, a Project Manager, two UI/UX personnel, and two developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

After launching the site, we have experienced exponential growth in traffic and trust from our users due to the increased ease of usability! We have now provided personalized recommendations to about 30,000 consumers.

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

We had a weekly stand up meeting where we reviewed their progress, and the work was divided into sprints so I always knew what the team was working on during a particular time.

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

Their creativity and ability to quickly design or update a wireframe were impressive. Their work truly wowed me every step of the way.

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

The team is great and was very open to my comments for small bug fixes and changes.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am head of product and in charge of developing the platform for all our customers to use for order management and communcation.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We were looking for an experienced CTO who could guide us through the process of building out an MVP that was both stable but flexible enough to act as the foundation for our business as we grew.

SOLUTION

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

The experience that Froilan had and the level of quality, discipline and communication of the development team were the main factors we looked at when deciding which development agency to use.

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

The scope of work involved writing an SRS and then building an MVP for a supply chain platform that helped business manage and collaborate on their orders.

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

There were as many as 10 people assigned to our project at one point, with several core developers that led the project, supported by an excellent UI resource and a QA lead.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project was delivered on time, on budget and with additional features included that were recommended by the developers, which improved the deliverable.

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

We had weekly stand-ups with the team lead, along with a demo at the end of every sprint to review the work.

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

The team's CTO had a deep knowledge of the latest technologies and processes with an excellent management style.

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

Nothing, they were excellent!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder of BLC Consluting

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Consulting

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Landing page and managed hosting

SOLUTION

How did you find Fulcrum Solutions?

Previously hired

Why did you select Fulcrum Solutions over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from Fulcrum Solutions were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Website Development

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Regular reviews.

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

They delivered on time and responded to our needs.

What was your primary form of communication with Fulcrum Solutions?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Relationship, honesty, quality

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

n/a

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Founder, and CEO of pocketyard. A construction material, equipment, and services platform.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Fulcrum to build our platform. Our goals were to create a user friendly web based platform to procure construction materials, as well as equipment.

SOLUTION

How did you select Fulcrum Solutions and what were the deciding factors?

We researched CTO's, as well as web developers. Through our research, Fulcrum seemed highly qualified to work on, and complete the project.

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

Fulcrum built out the project, from top to bottom.

How many people from the Fulcrum Solutions team worked with you, and what were their positions?

In total there were about 5-7 people working on our project. CTO, PM, front end developer, back end developer, UI etc.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It was a pleasure to work with Froilan, and the whole Fulcrum team. They are extremely professional, and very responsive. The project moved along quickly. They worked quickly to make changes, and address bugs. Great Team!

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

We had weekly meetings. And calls when needed. We were always kept in the loop of everything going on.

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

Fulcrum Solutions went above and beyond through the whole process. They are very easy to work with.

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

None I can think of.