ScrumLaunch

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are an education technology company building video recruitment tools for schools are the world.

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

We had ambitious technology goals and projects, but didn't want to hire expensive inhouse U.S. developers. Frankly. the economics for our product wouldn't support extremely expensive U.S. development.

Our initial goal was to build an MVP to prove out our model and product offering, and then use that to raise money and hire developers internally. However, after having such an amazing experience with Scrumlaunch during our MVP, we realized we'd be able to run and grow the project indefinitely with them. It was an easy, no-brainer decision.

Our primary goal of achieving cost-effective development across all platform types has been achieved by working with Scrumlaunch.

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

We met closely with the founders of the company, who took the time to thoughtfully listen to our needs and provide suggestions and solutions. We met with other companies in the process of selecting Scrumlaunch, but it was clear to us that Scrumlaunch had a very unique track record of working with all types of successful companies which had been acquired or achieved sustainable high-revenue goals.

Most other outsourced software development firms we found had just worked on one-off projects, but usually didn't help to build lasting companies. The fact that multiple Scrumlaunch partners had been acquired was a testament to the quality of their work.

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

We have worked with Scrumlaunch for nearly 4 years. Our project has included absolutely everything under the sun from an extremely sophisticated web app with advanced video capabilities, to iOs and Android native app development, to email notification systems - we have done it all with Scrumlaunch! Scaling our development capabilities has been absolutely seamless with Scrumlaunch.

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

About 10 people. The majority are full-time developers, either front-end or back-end. We also have a dedicated project manager and designer, and the company owners are available to speak with us on-demand.

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

Scrumlaunch has had the single biggest impact on our business since we started 5 years ago. We have built more than we could have ever imagined, and survived through the slog of identifying product-market fit, not only because of Scrumlaunch's cost-effective development capabilities but also because of their strategic advice and prioritization. I consider ScrumLaunch one of our biggest strategic advantages over any other company in our industry. We build 3X more for the same cost as "competitors" and have been able to iterate on our product at an unbelievable rate.

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

Very hands-on, always available, and extremely insightful. They have worked with so many projects and companies that they can apply learnings from previous experience and save us the trouble or learning some things the hard way.

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

It's ability to scale while maintaining exceptional talent. Scrumlaunch's scale enables our scale and expansion as well. If we need 5 more developers by next Friday, they'll figure out a way to get them. If we want to scale the team down and reduce expenses for a few months, that's ok too.

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

None. It's been perfect. Scrumlaunch is a blessing.

Please describe your company and your position there.

GOGOPIX is a place for music fans to access and design custom visuals for music they love to stream. Fans and marketers can use GOGOPIX to make compelling and contextual Instagram story posts.

For what projects/services did your company hire ScrumLaunch?

We hired ScrumLaunch to help us validate some key user assumptions before we invested too heavily into design and development. 

What were your goals for this project?

We had two main goals for this project: speed and measurement. End-to-end functionality was also key to accommodating an experiment focused on a short window of real measurement. 

How did you select this vendor?

A colleague I admire now works at ScrumLaunch, and I took this as an opportunity to look at their offering. There are plenty of places to find developers, but it was ScrumLaunch’s focus on startups and the iterative process of feature testing that convinced me to hire them.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

ScrumLaunch developed a web-app for use in end-to-end, live consumer experiments that allowed us to distribute short videos to interested users via text. The project was executed in three distinct phases

Phase One consisted of determining the project objectives and clarifying the official product requirements. We met for a few working meetings and communicated with ScrumLaunch by providing a high-level system concept then answering their questions. From there we met to verify the end-to-end user flows and partnered with their design team on the content for their user interface.

Phase Two had some creative assets in progress; the ScrumLaunch developers built out all of the feature functionality once we gave them the specified user flow. We provided the final content, which was added before Phase Three.

Phase Three involved final adjustments with the content; ScrumLaunch performed an additional level of testing before the live experiment. They shared their documented results, and then we conducted our own additional testing, during which we found no issues.

What was the team composition?

We had a primary point of contact responsible for all of our objectives and who eventually managed the entire project execution. 

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

In less than one month, we were collecting phone numbers and distributing back videos to hundreds of people. This helped us confirm consumer interest and direct our app roadmap. Equally important were the business partner testimonials we were able to build that leveraged the web app.

ScrumLaunch understood our product requirements for speed and guided the process by limiting complexity. They properly handled all aspects of assurance and notified us immediately about unexpected hurdles.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The project management was neatly organized. We were assigned a clear point of contact for each phase with overall accountability assigned to our primary contact. All the communication was very timely, which gave us great confidence about the progress.

Given the nature of the project, many of our objectives needed refining. We were often afforded the opportunity to answer questions directly from ScrumLaunch team members regarding implementation and feedback. I appreciated this interface with multiple experts during the project rollout, which I found more efficient than communicating only through an account manager. It also eliminated any surprises at the end.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

ScrumLaunch consolidated everything from our business needs to product interest measurements into a core system that enabled us to validate our early thinking. I was impressed with how quickly we were able to begin our market experiments, thanks to their efficiently developed solution. 

Are there any areas for improvement?

I would like to see more internal tools for startup clients, such as an experiment tracking tool to help approach and document a sequence of iterative experiments. 

Please describe your company and your position there.

I worked as the lead developer for the vLoop video platform until it was acquired. It was a platform used by thousands of professional and college sports teams.

For what projects/services did your company hire ScrumLaunch?

I needed development assistance for a long-term project to build a cloud-based video analysis platform and transcoding engine along with a responsive frontend.

What were your goals for this project?

I wanted to help sports teams of all levels use video to improve their performance.

How did you select this vendor?

I heard about them from a friend who had worked with them in the past.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

We built a responsive web application using Angular that allowed users to interact, clip, edit, comment, and draw on moments in video. We also transcoded almost any video format, including MTS, mov, wmv, avi, to mp4, HLS and webM playback formats so that they were all web-compatible. The ScrumLaunch team assisted in co-refactoring for the frontend and optimizing AWS CPU usage to lower transcoding costs. The project scaled to hundreds of thousands of hours of uploaded video. Together with the SL team we built a scalable video transcoding engine in Go and Python and also a responsive Angular web app.

What was the team composition?

They provided a dedicated software team of seven developers which I grouped into two scrum groups.

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

We gained thousands of users, including professional, college, and high school sports teams. Some teams that I watched in the Olympics and on television were using the platform we built.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Even though our team was distributed, all the developers were well-trained in remote scrum processes, so our development process was very smooth. I communicated with the team directly on a daily basis. They also don’t believe in proxy product managers, so there was no one standing between me and the team I was working with. I had total access to every member of the team at all times.

We used Google Hangouts, Slack, and Trello. We followed a scrum process and used Trello to manage our user stories and tasks.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I think what makes ScrumLaunch stand out is their emphasis on communication and responsiveness along with the quality of engineers they provide.

Are there any areas for improvement?

They should add more design resources.

Please describe your company and your position there.

FullCourt AI is a mobile application and artificial intelligence pipeline enabling sports teams to film games and generate highlights with just two iPhones and ball tracking AI technology. I am the VP of Engineering and head the iOS development team.

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

We hired ScrumLaunch for ongoing iOS development (Swift), backend development (AI/Neural Networks, AWS, Python), QA and UI/UX design.

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

A referral from a friend who works with them who has had a very positive experience.

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

The ScrumLaunch team worked to considerably augment our internal engineering team. The product itself primarily uses SwiftUI, Composable Architecture (similar to Redux), AWS, OpenCV, Keras and TensorFlow.

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

We filled a total of 6 positions with ScrumLaunch

• Product Owner & Scrum Master (1)
• iOS Developer (1.5)
• Machine Learning/AI Developer (1)
• QA Engineer (1.5)
• UI/UX Designer (1)

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

We were able to fill out a few key missing parts of our development teams in order to reach quicker milestones. This helped us to ensure that we could hit user growth goals when raising our next round of funding.

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

We worked very closely with the ScrumLaunch team and operated as one consolidated scrum team with the product owner from ScrumLaunch acting as the scrum master. He did an excellent job of keeping the Trello board organized with accurate story point estimates and prioritization.

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

It’s clear they have a lot of experience working with startups and growth-stage companies based on their processes and how quickly they get things done.

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

If I had to pick one thing, it would be expanding their services to marketing automation which would have been very helpful for us as well.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO and Founder of MODULAR11.

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

I needed to build a custom tool dedicated to the vision of our company.

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

I found them through a friend of mine who had experience with some of their development team. Cost and dedication were the big deciding factors for my decision.

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

Scrumlaunch was able to problem solve and create a tech stack that was suited for my project.

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

I've had anywhere from 1-7 Scrumlaunch team members dedicated to my project. The Scrumlaunch team has been able to increase and decrease productivity as required by development needs as well as budgetary limitations.

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

The ScrumLaunch team have enabled us to launch our product to market while continuing to adapt and adjust on the fly as both technology as well as demands evolve.

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

ScrumLaunch uses industry standard project management platforms allowing for collaborative and transparent communication. I can be as involved or not involved as I need based on my relationship with the team.

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

Prior to working with ScrumLaunch, I was working with a contract PHP developer who was overpriced and didn’t do a great job. Since I began working with ScrumLaunch, I have never needed to look anywhere else for software development and design resources. It's one less problem for me to worry about.

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

Pretty dialed process and team. Only focus is communication between differing types of developers and making sure everything is coordinated.

Please describe your company and your position there.

My company owns and operates digital publisher properties in various categories, and work with advertising exchanges and technologies to monetize our user base.

For what projects/services did your company hire ScrumLaunch?

I hired ScrumLaunch to build an ad technology and marketing automation platform to grow my portfolio of media sites to increase revenue per year.

What were your goals for this project?

I wanted to automate workflows and increase revenue with minimal manual work.

How did you select this vendor?

I received a referral from a friend that worked with them in the past.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

They developed API integrations using Yahoo, Taboola, RevContent, and Outbrain to automate significant elements of my workflow. Their team also provided me with the ability to create and optimize a large volume of ad creative assets automatically.

What was the team composition?

I initially started with one developer, but the team grew as my project scaled. I now manage a group of three developers, including a team lead.

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

ScrumLaunch tripled my revenue by automating these processes. Their team made it efficient to optimized my media buying process.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We primarily use Slack and Trello to communicate. They operate as if they are my full-time employees.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The speed and quality of their work are relative to their cost. ScrumLaunch does an excellent job. Their team quickly figured out the context of my industry.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Due to time zone differences, there were a few issues, but otherwise, my experience working with ScrumLaunch has been outstanding.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the founder and CEO of Gipper. We’re a graphics creation platform for schools. 

For what projects/services did your company hire ScrumLaunch?

We hired ScrumLaunch to build an SaaS platform for schools that allowed them to quickly and easily make content for social media.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to build a scalable, SaaS platform that was responsive and allowed for privileged access.

How did you select this vendor?

A friend and advisor recommended them highly to us.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

They developed a scalable SaaS platform from scratch that allows users to create high-quality graphics for social media. We had daily video conferences with a project manager to ensure we were on the same page and staid up-to-date with development challenges and questions. ScrumLaunch implemented our UX with ease and were always available to chat through Slack. 

What was the team composition?

We worked with one full-time developer.

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

Previously, we’d built an MVP in-house that had some success, but it had limited functionality and wasn’t very scalable. This new platform is essential to our business success. It will enable us to grow at a rapid rate, which is exactly what we were looking for.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

It’s extremely impressive. We collaborate on Slack and have daily video chats via Google Hangouts. Despite their team being offshore, their communication is great. They're also highly organized.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They’ve been able to integrate with us and become a part of our team. While other DevOps shops tend to shy away from communication, ScrumLaunch ensures we always have an open channel of communication. They’re also extremely responsive, which is crucial to me.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No, not that I saw. There’s very little they can improve.