Mifort

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Manager in a digital company.

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

To develop a mobile business game for children. Our goals were to give children a basic knowledge of business and economics through gamification.

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

I found multiple companies on Linkedin and preferred to choose Mifort because of its favorable work conditions that they suggested and because of their successfully implemented projects.

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

Mifort developed Frontend and Backend components for a mobile game application that simulates an actual business model. They implemented two types of users (entrepreneur and worker), and three versions of teams (2, 12, or 24 gamers). For the Backend part, they developed a feature to exchange data with the server using WebSockets. They implemented a complex but sufficient client-server architecture.

Simultaneously, the Frontend is showing the user an actual model of how business works that include hire/fire employees, developing skills and abilities, increasing or decreasing profit indicators, illnesses, force- majeure situations, indicate how competitors grew up, bankruptcies, etc. For more comfortable gaming, real live gamers could see these changes on the screen or send a report to email. Created games include 25 analytic reports. These reports include the data on why did one business grew, and the other went bankrupt.

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

Tech lead, 3 developers, UI/UX designer.

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

Attracting many users and receiving paid promotional offers on this basis.

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

We used Scrum, Kanban. These models are always effective. We had communication several times per day, so we were sure about the status of work.

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

Involvement of developers in the project, and they have a well-established management process.

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

Expansion of the staff as we have several other projects to develop.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a mentor and an investor at startups. I was a CVO at a skill gaming company. The platform is designed for players who constantly participate in competitions and help to demonstrate gaming skills. The platform combines multiplayer games that have long gained popularity.

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

To create a stable blockchain gaming platform.

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

Mifort was recommended to me by my familiars at investment meetups.

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

Mifort created the PHT (or ERC20) token on the Ethereum Blockchain platform and developed popular games. Users can fight in PvP matches, take part in tournaments for all players or even create their own tournaments. Users strike for cryptocurrency in competitions, where they need to show intelligence, reaction, attention and other skills.

Using this platform people are able to score cryptocurrency tokens for winning skill games. The most popular developed games are Sea battle; Tank battle; Tetris; Dominoes; Chess; Backgammon; Billiards; Three in a row; Mahjong; Puzzles; Strategy War of the Generals; Space and sea battles; Rock-paper-scissors and more.

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

We hired 2 project teams: 2 Project Managers, 9 Developers, 2 Testers and 1 DevOps. Marketing and business analysis were developed on our own.

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

The MVP version has already earned more close to $1M.

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

The Mifort team consists of active and responsive professionals, which helped us to come up with multiple ways to solve any issues that arose.

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

I was pleasantly surprised that the developers share interests in games.

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

In my opinion it would be better if Mifort provided marketing services

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a startup with 10 developers onsite. I lead the development of our web app.

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

We develop a single-page web application targeted at the public sector. It is an image and video-heavy app where high-quality code is crucial for good performance. We needed a capable developer that we could include in our team to improve our backend and our validation code.

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

We discovered our future colleague from Mifort on Upstart. We had interviews with other candidates, but the candidate from Mifort seemed most promising.

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

After we explained our requirements, Mifort supplied us with a well-fitting candidate. Our requirements were that the candidate should be able to independently work as a part of our development team on our Django-based API. They should also be able to speak English. Some German was an added benefit that Mifort was able to fulfill.

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

We employ one person through Mifort. She is a junior to mid-experienced backend developer.

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

Our new colleague provided by Mifort has been a reliable team member. She has submitted numerous merge requests and worked very independently.

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

We do the project management onsite, as we asked Mifort for a remote team extension. They have always reacted very promptly to any questions we had.

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

The number of talents they advertise on their website is impressive. We will certainly consider Mifort as a great resource of developers in the future.

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

No, we have no suggestions for improvement.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m a CIO at a building infrastructure company. Our software provides interactive digital markup for manufacturing, medical, schools, government and transportation buildings.

For what projects/services did your company hire Mifort?

Creating a project of building infrastructure management.

What were your goals for this project?

My goals were to help big companies to manage their building with automated system, allow them to save spendings on it and increase productivity.

How did you select this vendor?

I asked Mifort and about 20 suppliers that I browsed on the Internet for an estimate through their contact form. Mifort provided us detailed estimate in comparison with others. It was easy for them to explain the process of our project development.I was hoped that they know what to do. It played a big role in choosing a company for creating our project

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Tasks were -to develop system for manage an interactive plan room of infrastructure, floor-by-floor, building-by-building, asset by asset; -integrated view of building infrastructure; -create templates and administrative panels for every industry(manufacturing, medical, schools, government and transportation); -create dashboards for users; -create effective flow of documents between employees, -create quick search of documents everything, -create opportunity to use it offline when connection is bad, then the system will synchronize all changes, -set automatic maintenance -A/B testing of all system.

What was the team composition?

3 developers, pm, qa and devops.

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

This project allowed us to save 15% of the estimated spendings on the building and increase productivity by 50%. It became useful for such companies as Reagan National Airport, Toyota, Kindred Healthcare, Goodyear Tire, Rubber Company and etc.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

If I ever had a question about anything under the sun, they were available to me. I could just reach out to them and they would pretty much always have an answer for me. I also like how everything related to the project was on a Scrum board and I saw what was going on in real-time.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

What’s most impressive is their responsiveness and transparency.

Are there any areas for improvement?

The only concern that I had was due of the time zones. Occasionally, there would be a one-day lag because of it. It also would have been great to be able to have more face-to-face calls.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am an Innovation Manager at a Swiss cantonal bank

For what projects/services did your company hire Mifort?

Web and Mobile development

What were your goals for this project?

Development of the mortgage calculator that gives advice about buying and renting houses for migrants in Switzerland. It intends to guide and educate future homeowners by: - helping to understand their financial situation better - helping to navigate local regulations covering purchase of property by foreigners - helping to estimate property affordability ceiling - clarifying taxation aspects of property purchase - helping to make a decision whether it is worth to keep renting their - current property or it is time to become a homeowner - revealing hidden costs

How did you select this vendor?

We were initially reaching out to find somebody who could develop our project. We looked through many outsourcing companies and contacted Mifort finally. Alexey, the CTO at Mifort, gave detailed answers to all our questions regarding work and task-oriented project estimation. I flew to Mifort’s office to meet the team, discuss work and sign a contract.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Mifort team implemented the architecture of Online Mortgage Advice application in Angular 9 for Switzerland Bank. Implemented 20 calculation filters that make analytics via 15 characteristics added by users and assisted in the decision-making process. Developed various types of charts for data analytics (bar charts, donut charts and etc). Developed features show users 10 different graphs in D3.js. Implemented download reports in PDF format. Implemented integration with Google Analytics, Tag Manager to control user behavior and Mailchimp to send mails.

What was the team composition?

2 full-time developers and part-time Tech Lead and Project Manager.

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

Built advisor Application is used by more than 1000 people a day, it is expected to have 10.000 people a day in the near future.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Mifort provided a Project Manger for a team that helped with coordinating tasks and developers.We used a messenger for chatting and Zoom for calls and Project Management tools.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I was not expecting that the very first Project that I work with Mifort will go that smoth. Will definitely work with Mifort on future projects. Mifort is easy to work with. They are very flexible regarding new requirements. Mifort had finished the project a deadline.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I did not see the negative sides, everything was done at the highest level.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a manager at an IELTS center. The center is for non-native English speakers. Our visitors are highly educated people (talented school leavers and graduates) who are looking for employment/study opportunity in English speaking countries like America, Canada, Australia and Europe.

I am compiling a standardized test of knowledge of the English language upon completion of which an international certificate is given.

For what projects/services did your company hire Mifort?

We gave Mifort the task to create an online learning system for practicing in passing IELTS tests online.

What were your goals for this project?

Our goals were to provide personalized free IELTS sample practice tests, IELTS lessons, IELTS books, and effective IELTS preparation tips.

How did you select this vendor?

My colleague met a manager from Mifort at an educational meetup. We knew about Mifort experience in creating educational applications and when we got an idea to develop an e-learning platform we prefered to work with Mifort because we were in contact with Alexey.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Mifort created online IELTS tests divided into 4 parts:

• Listening
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking

They also created a word counter for Writing Section, IELTS calculator for checking them and Reporting system to validate results.

Mifort created all these features in easy-to-use way with categories, recent posts and etc. They were implementing new types of tests in production every 2 weeks. After all tests types were finished Mifort also worked on improvements for more presentable look.

Guys from Mifort also created integration with IELTS center. Thanks to subscription created by our developers an individual approach is applied from teachers for every registered user. Our platform became linked with social networks. Mifort developed registration system for passing the IELTS with all enhancement for it.

Thirdly, they developed database and CMS providing instructions on how to use it in details. They also took full control of registering a domain name and hosting.

What was the team composition?

We hired three developers, one tester, one devops and one Agile project manager.

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

After running the promo campaign we got about 10 thousand visitors to our platform.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Planning, execution, and completion of the project were according to deadlines and within budget. PM provided regular status reports and prepared statement of work (SoW), managed change requests and revision of project scope including tracking budget.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Mifort always honestly talked about delays in advance, so we had enough time to change the plan accordingly.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Some developers have Advanced English level, others have Upper-Intermediate and intermediate level. As an IELTS center manager I can notice there is potential to improve English skills up to C1 level.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a founder of Saharok Company. Saharok is e-commerce store selling rare sweets and tea/coffee in Belarus.

For what projects/services did your company hire Mifort?

Website Design, Website Business Analysis, Website Development, Website Hosting

What were your goals for this project?

The goal was to create the Saharok Webapp to sell the goods

How did you select this vendor?

I got the Mifort referral from my Business Partner (with good reccomendations about Selling Platform creation)

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Saharok is a e-commerce Platform. There are Cart, Galley, Blog, Promotions, Admin Panel, Newsletter. Mifort team built all of them. Firstly all the hosting and publishing services were provided and Web Design was delivered.

What was the team composition?

3 Developers and 1 Manager

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

After a year we opened the first offline store.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We worked with monthly planning and daily meetings. That way of working fit us the best and was the most effective.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Most impressive was the flexibility in terms of delivery timing. I changed requirements multiple times, but Mifort managed to keep deadlines nevertheless.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Everything is good

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work for a Media Company and here I am responsible for connection of owners with TV channels.

For what projects/services did your company hire Mifort?

My company hired Mifort for creating a web application to schedule the TV programs with different data presentations (interactive charts, lists, tables). The aim was to make it user-friendly and facilitate the work of TV-shows rights holders.

What were your goals for this project?

To provide dynamic, interactive data visualizations for users of our application in order to make the user experience more enjoyable for TV-shows rights holders.

How did you select this vendor?

We started to look for a vendor in Belarus as we heard good reviews on Western Europe specialists. We googled Mifort and a few other companies. We scheduled a call and discussed all our mockups in detail.

Mifort’s developers were passionate for data visualization what was most important for our project. After additional comparison to other belarusian vendors, we’ve chosen Mifort to be our partner in work on the project

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Our application was built by developers in three main parts. The first was a Circle part. Developers created the Tree using D3 library’s Circle Packing chart and added functions like zoom up or up, edit, delete and exclude nodes of the general stream.

The second part was Demographic, VB, Telecast pages. It is a scheme of TV programs. Guys added the following features: add cards within two ways, cancel, filter, create events and etc. These pages are full of diagrams created by frontend developers.

And the last part was Promo Pie pages that shows statics with D3 library’s Sunburst chart. Project Manager manager was good at organising the work within deadlines, writing documentation for users and for us and conducting demos.

What was the team composition?

2 Frontend developers and 1 Backend developers; 1 Tech lead; 0.5 Project Manager; 0.5 Business analyst; 0.5 DevOps.

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

Level of Data visualization quality and it’s clearness has grown significantly thanks to the application developed by Mifort. We managed to attract new customers with the new Web app.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

I’m satistificated with the work. Project manager was able to motivate the team, so team members was working as a team and therefore the work was very effective.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I was surprised that the Mifort developers are truly passionate about data visualization.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Hire more people with similar skills so they can replace each other when needed.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO of J&S Book GmbH. We developed a children's book app, called Tara's Stories. All stories are multilingual: English, Spanish, German and Swiss German. The stories accompany the children throughout the ages, focus on seasonal events. They can be selected according to the children’s current needs, questions and worries.

For what projects/services did your company hire Mifort?

Mifort developed the whole app for Android and iOs with React Native including the backend using NoteJS.

What were your goals for this project?

Full app development, including publishing on the market places.

How did you select this vendor?

We had a long process of finding the right company - not too big, with personal contact and good communication. After several Skype talks we decided for Mifort.

Describe the project in detail.

Mifort got our Mockups, but as these projects always go, we had several changes from our side. Mifort was always very good to handle these changes.

What was the team composition?

We had a project manager, a frontend and backend developer.

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

Both apps - Android and iOs are fully functional available at the stores, including payment system.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

very smoothly, fast response times, good communication

What did you find most impressive about this company?

We could see that they really liked our project. They put their own thoughts into it and came up with their own useful ideas. It was a great team project—they contributed more than just development work.

Are there any areas for improvement?

none that are worth mentioning

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO and co-founder of a product lifecycle management solutions company.

What challenge were you trying to address with Mifort?

We brought on Mifort to perform frontend development on a cloud-based web application that runs on Chrome or Firefox web browsers.

The application would help hardware companies streamline their process workflows and all the data that’s generated during product development.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We provided an online JavaScript template with basic design elements (look and feel) as a starting point. Then, we added our own design input on top of the template to make it our own. Mifort used parts of that design, and they edited or created other characteristics.

The team performed frontend development in JavaScript on the cloud-based application. Their services included building an interface for managing products and the workflow. 

What is the team composition?

When we initially started working with them, we had a developer and a project engineer that performed project management functions.

How did you come to work with Mifort?

We uploaded a small evaluation project on Upwork, received 5–6 requests, and gave it to four development companies. Our bullet list of criteria included work ethic and expertise in JavaScript web-based enterprise applications. We also wanted them to be comfortable writing and speaking in English. We were looking for a vendor that had experience working with Kanban-style workflows. We found Mifort to be a good fit for our needs. 

How much have you invested with them?

Over the three years, we’ve invested between $10,000 and $50,000 with the team. 

What is the status of this engagement?

We started engaging with them in July 2016, and it’s an ongoing relationship. Initially, we thought the project would be completed in a year, but we’ve continued adding new customers and new modules. 

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

Since we didn’t initially have a robust QA process, I don’t have a lot of metrics on how effective their work was. However, the accessibility of the testimonials on our website serves as a differentiator from our competitors. Also, we haven’t had many regression bugs in the last few years, so it’s clear that Mifort has been on top of their game.

How did Mifort perform from a project management standpoint?

They’re very easy to work with, and they go out of their way to help us. We have good relations with their founder Alexey (Co-Founder & Tech Lead, Mifort). He’s a very nice guy. 

When we initially engaged with them, the founder was our project manager. Later, he disengaged and put another project manager in place, and she’s been really helpful. We have daily standup calls, she takes notes where necessary and puts the documentation in Jira.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I appreciate that they’re a voice of reason. They aren’t pushovers—they take ownership of the project. They don’t hesitate to offer input if my method isn’t the best way to accomplish something. Also, as we’re a bootstrap company, the team has been understanding about our resource limitations.

Are there any areas they could improve?

It would have been great if they provided backend development in house. It would make sense for us to consolidate the front-and backend development in one location. They’ve explored this, but I’d like for them to act on it. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Future clients should do their due diligence when choosing a development partner. Identifying a small evaluation project is a good way to do it. I have no hesitation in recommending Mifort, but development isn’t a one size fits all model.