FXBITS

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an executive at Carry1st

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are the go-to partner for game developers looking to scale in Africa. Partner with us to leverage our unique user acquisition and monetization capabilities in the final growth market.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire FXBITS to accomplish?

• Rewrite our web e-commerce platform
• Augment our team capacity on a long-term basis

SOLUTION

How did you find FXBITS?

Clutch Site

Why did you select FXBITS over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from FXBITS were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

We partnered with FXBits to initially build a new product in the crypto and NFT space. They were responsible for project management, solution architecture, implementation and maintenance. We further extended our partnership to another product; a digital commerce and payments platform, to rewrite the web application using the Next.js framework. 

FXBits were responsible for solution architecture, implementation, maintenance, and up-skilling our internal team in Next.js framework. Currently, we have established a long-term relationship, whereby they are augmenting out internal team to work as a single team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our digital commerce and payments platform performed poorly on low end devices, and required a lot of data. The main measurable outcome to measure success, was to improve the Lighthouse performance score from ~10 to > 60. The performance goal was achieved.

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

Highly responsive when asked about anything. Very efficient workers all round - definitely increase development velocity since being involved in our projects. Affable characters on their team - from Paul to even the more junior devs.

What was your primary form of communication with FXBITS?

Virtual Meeting

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

Concise communication - Our stand ups are usually pretty short and effective (tip of the iceberg), and I know a lot more investigation and effort happened behind the scenes. Effortlessly taking initiative autonomously - I’ve only needed to through bread crumbs in the direction where something needs to be addressed, the rest has been taken care off by the team. 

They dive down to the root cause, and follow best practices to fix issues and develop features in a good standard. Team work - I found that every team member is extremely good at something, and the team as a whole works as an efficient machine. 

I would describe them as an elite warrior team that never missed an arrow. Internally Streamlined - the teams internal communication flows like water, and reaches every other team member within minutes, no need to make big huddles and burn extra time on communication from my side. Strong technical know how - Along with good attitude, they also are also pretty good in what they do. 

So the core skills at each level of experience is really good. High Ownership - Team is super responsive & each member displays high level of ownership to tasks/problems assigned. They ask the right questions and collaborate both internally & with us to get to the desired outcome.

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

Nothing I can think of.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Co-Founder of a strategic IT consulting company, GiGu Germany. We enable companies to be fit for tomorrow's business - with an individually tailored strategy, customized solutions and professional innovation and product management.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our customer needed to implement the principle of one - to manage multiple configurations apps across departments by having a meta model to address them all. The goal was to implement an MVP for a Configuration Management Database application that would run on Web with increased security.

SOLUTION

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

They were highly recommended from a CEO from my network, that worked with them on several projects before. We wad an initial 2 days workshop onsite, where we shared the problem and how we thought about the solution. Their input was very good, and they even did some design sketches on the spot - that helped the discussions a lot and we could decide for them immediately.

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

Using our preliminary high level requirements their team understood the goal very fast and took over implementation from end to end. Their designer and developers greatly contributed to shaping the features and supported us through multiple iterations.

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

Initially we worked with their co-founder and the senior team who helped us define the solution in the preliminary workshop. After the project was in place we worked directly with the workshop team: UX/UI designer, solution architect and a senior full-stack developer. Another front-end developer joined the team after the workshop.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We had deployed the MVP and are running it live with the purpose of collecting users feedback for the next feature set. We had very positive feedback. Even from one who was usually quite a critic of the new configurator project, his statement after the MVP was "OK, it's something new, we will need to learn. But new is good." From him, this is quite a praise for what we have.

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

They are flexible in the approach and really know what they are doing. In communication they are outspoken, direct, and sincere. We worked in agile scrum iterations of 2 weeks. As project tooling we used the Atlasian stack and Slack.

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

Having the onsite workshop that we also used as a kick-off was great. Communicating with their team remotely was so easy, just like we would with our people. We had the same team from the initial workshop to the end delivery and follow-up phases, and we were in perfect alignment at all times. I really liked that their co-founder was involved from the point of sale throughout the delivery sign-off and helped facilitating planning when needed.

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

At times they could have insisted more for us to define the roadmap in more detail.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Plaace

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Plaace is a platform that connects retail spaces with brands, by use of data insights, making it easier for the retailer to find the perfect location for their business.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire FXBITS to accomplish?

• Develop a user friendly though complex platform

SOLUTION

How did you find FXBITS?

Online Search

Why did you select FXBITS over others?

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

How many teammates from FXBITS were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Work has been to be an extended part of the team, with agile development together. Key deliverables are custom urban areas showing aggregated card transaction details over time and creating cusomizable dashboards for the customers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Progress of success is deliverables that are being used by our customers and that are sellable to new customers.

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

Yes, we are using Scrum agile methodology as a project management and they are superb at working with this form together with the rest of the team.

What was your primary form of communication with FXBITS?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They are consistent and provide us with valuable ideas and suggestions for tools to use.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Owner of a Business Consulting Company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Business Consulting

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire FXBITS to accomplish?

• Develop and design a Customer portal

SOLUTION

How did you find FXBITS?

Referral

Why did you select FXBITS over others?

• Pricing fits our budget
• Good value for cost
• people & team

How many teammates from FXBITS were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

FXBits developed a web-based portal in which customers and employees can manage the onboarding and results fully integrated with SalesForce. The complexity of the project was the fact that the existing manual processes created very complex data structure which needed to be reduced by automation so that the end users maintained a level of flexibility.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They effectively delivered the tasks on time.

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

Delivered on time and in case challenges or delays occurred it was always discussed in close collaboration to make the right progress

What was your primary form of communication with FXBITS?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

The commitment of the team members to meet the agreed deadline

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

not at the moment