Offshorly

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CRO of Stackzone

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

StackZone is a Cloud Management Platform that implements cloud best practices through automation.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Website redesign
• Wordpress site creation

SOLUTION

How did you find Offshorly?

• Referral

Why did you select Offshorly over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Referred to me

How many teammates from Offshorly were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

We worked together with Offshorly to redesign and redo our website. We Were using WIX and needed to migrate into WordPress, as well as redesign the whole site and content.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Design creation.
• Website theme and specific block creation.
• Website pages creation.

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

We had some issues with the design portion of the project, most likely due to a shared responsibility issue between them and my team. It was finally resolved and the project was delivered correctly.

What was your primary form of communication with Offshorly?

• Virtual Meeting

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

They are open to feedback, The web developer was really expensive and solved issues really fast. They gave us additional support by teaching us how to administrate our site and were really patient with our questions.

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

Communication can be improved, using a chat channel can make the communication during the project more fluent. Despite it did not affect the result, it would be a plus.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Project manager

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We're a global innovation service provider for our clients by developing services and products based on new technologies.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• To assist for the mobile application development for a bank.

SOLUTION

How did you find Offshorly?

Referral

Why did you select Offshorly over others?

• Pricing first our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

What was the size of Offshorly’s team?

2-5 Employees

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

The project is about to develop a mobile application that integration two systems for investment management. The deliverables are the developed modules and user stories.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Completed User Stories
• Sprint Review and module demo

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

They were all responsible and delivered everything on time with high quality.

What was your primary form of communication with Offshorly?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email
• Messaging App

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

The quality of staff/ developers are good and easy to work as a team towards the project goal.

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

I think all good so far.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO / Co-Founder of WA Productions which is a high end event and tailor made consulting firm that aims to generate value by promoting business between inbound and outbound companies focused on Japan and Asia, and primarily the global digital asset ecosystem, traditional finance and related industries.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We were looking for a partner to design, develop, project managed and launch our new website and web offerings as a fully managed but customized service.

SOLUTION

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

We went through a beauty parade of several providers in what is an extremely crowded space packed with Dev Shops. Offshorly stood out because of their excellent service, highly skilled team, passion for creativity, enduring flexibility and dedication to innovation and quality. With a proven track record of delivering and impressive pitch / project outline it became clear that they were the right partner who we could trust.

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

We had a kick off meeting with our dedicated Offshorly project team, described our ideas for web content, site design and feature engineering, and then went through an informative and valuable consultative process during which they delivered mock ups, wireframes and a Wordpress landing page with a customer form and other useful tools.

They listened to our feedback and customized according to our requirements, including great advice about maximizing the visitor experience and retention. It was a very rewarding and enjoyable experience. The site is designed to be flexible and scalable so after the completion of this initial phase - which was delivered on time, on budget and on spec - we plan to continue working with them to expand our site, capabilities and services.

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

A project manager was our main point of contact alongside two full stack developers and a designer who were always available, professional, helpful and extremely productive.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

After launching our site after one month we saw a 70% increase in traffic, a tripling of leads and great client feedback about the look and feel of our site, and understanding of our business and services.

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

We had daily stand ups with the project manager who communicated with the rest of the team and brought in other members as needed. They kept us updated about progress and any delays so that we could prepare. Jira, GitHub and Slack were used to ensure the project completed seamlessly and time to market best our expectations.

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

They provided us with a professional site that is easy to update and multilingual which is critical to our regional and global business. My team was not familiar with Wordpress and they took the time to train us up on the content management system so we can easily update ourselves.

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

When we first launched there were some minor bugs on the contact form. However, they were quick to make us aware and fixed the issues quickly. Overall service was great.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a founnding director of Contained Technologies UK Ltd.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We developed a prototype platform and needed a development team who understood our goal to create a disruptive logistics transparency platform.

SOLUTION

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

I've known Alex for many years, and know him to be an extremely clever and honest individual - armed with this knowledge meeting his team of similarly knowledgable & trustworthy came as no surprise and my trust in the group was never in question.

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

A collobration platform for the secure sharing of data.

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

we worked with 6 people so far from Project Management (the very best i've worked with) to design (FE & BE) specialists and core developers (again the very best I've had the pleasure to work with), QA excellence.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

My only issue is handling the new customers leading us to improve and uprate the onboaridng process.

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

Honest, speedy & 100% reliable.

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

We were impressed with their strong understanding of our product and their quick turnaround time. Unrivalled in 25 years experience.

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

Just keep doing this.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founding CTO of a SaaS tool that allows for senior management of organizations to review their project portfolio and make better decisions when making investments.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Once our idea had been vetted through interviews, we selected Offshorly to build our SaaS tool from the ground up. We interviewed ~10 other service providers from around the world before selecting Offshorly. Our goals were to find a partner who would help to engineer technical requirements from the functional user stories we had formulated, and also help me select the best tech-stack and environment setup to do this. Our primary goal was to build the tool quickly and get out for Alpha and Beta testing.

SOLUTION

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

Offshorly stood apart from the others shortlisted from day 1. A key factor for me was how proactively Offshortly took up the role of a partner. Alex demonstrated a deep knowledge in everything tech and was very eager to share his thoughts and views very openly when requested. When I explained my reservations in tech-stack, Offshorly tech team came back to me with recommendations listing pros and cons, along with further reading. I am happy to report that I went with all of their recommendations after doing my own research, and I am very happy with the decisions we made together.

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

Our tool was built on nextjs and hosted on vercel, with a backend on java, hosted on Heroku. Offshorly was hired to perform analyze and engineer technical requirements from the business requirements we had prepared. Following this, Offshorly and I discussed at length the best tech-stack to go with. Once technical requirements were engineered and tech stack identified, the engineering team from Offshortly started to build the tool.

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

Along with Alex playing role of Delivery Lead, we had a Project Manager dedicated for our project. The core engineering team consisted of 3-7 engineers and testers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our tool is complete and ready for Beta testing. While I cannot speak for the market success of our tool, all our testing has come back very positively. The Offshorly team has been very helpful in tweaking changes for us and getting the tool ready for Beta testing.

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

I had a dedicated PM who was knowledgeable in the technology but very good at getting the answers I needed from the team. While responses might have been slightly delayed at times, I would always get a detailed response with a little nudging. I must also stress that Alex was present in most meetings which was very assuring.

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

They were able to win my trust as advisors and partners very quickly. 

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

We had some hiccups in communication tools and had to revert to email. Some short delays in getting some details out for me, but nothing that isn't normal for any engineering company.