VentureDive

Please describe your company and your position there.

I lead product at a VR company focused on brain health.

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

We hired VentureDive to develop our mobile and tablet applications, as well as to setup and maintain our backend services. We also contracted them to take care of DevOps tasks as well.

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

Our CEO had past experience with VD and had had positive experiences.

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

Mobile and tablet app development using flutter, backend development using Ruby on Rails, DevOps using AWS services, design work using Figma

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

• 1 senior architect
• 1 project manager
• 2 backend engineers
• 4 flutter engineers
• 2 designers
• 2 DevOps engineers

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

Our tablet and mobile apps are now used by hundreds of people daily and have undergone significant improvements in design clarity and responsiveness.

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

We have a daily stand-up to make sure the team is on track towards production deployments.

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

VentureDive has been very flexible in working with tight timelines or rapidly changing requirements. As a startup company, it is not uncommon for us to shift gears very suddenly at times, and VD has more than risen to the task on numerous occasions.

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

Not particularly, we have been very impressed all around.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Director of Delivery at Ona, a technology social enterprise that builds solutions for governments, NGOs, UN agencies, and research institutions to improve delivery of essential services in low- and middle-income countries.

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

Ona builds custom data collection apps on our OpenSRP platform. VentureDive provides software engineering and project management services to help us deliver on our client projects.

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

We found out about VentureDive from a software engineer that Ona had worked with for a long time, and was one of the original developers of the OpenSRP platform. She left her previous company and moved to VentureDive. Given our positive experience working with her, we had confidence that VentureDive's other team members would be able to perform at similar levels of excellence.

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

VentureDive engineers are assigned to various OpenSRP projects. We mainly use GitHub and Slack for communication and task management.

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

Initially, we engaged 3 engineers from the VentureDive team but have increased our collaboration together. At present, we have a team of 12 VentureDive team members working with Ona. Most of the VentureDive team members are Android engineers, but we are also working with a technical architect, project manager, web engineer, and test automation engineer.

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

The VentureDive team supports a number of projects at Ona. They are valuable members of the team that have helped us deliver on our client software solutions and improve code coverage of products in development.

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

The VentureDive team has been receptive to Ona's ways of working and uses the same tools and platforms that we do, such as GitHub, Slack and Google Drive.

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

The nature of Ona's contracts mean that we often to shift resourcing between projects at short notice. They're flexible and adaptive in responding to changing priorities and competing demands with a positive attitude.

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

No

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am Head of product development and we provide data services to insurance companies, banks, car manufacturers, dealers, etc.

For what projects/services did your company hire VentureDive?

We hire VentureDive to enhance our AWS infrastructure

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

They have a good reputation in the market and they have a big cloud infrastructure team and most of them are AWS certified.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

First VentureDive team understands our requirements and does the infrastructure audit, then finds the areas to improve including scaling, security improvements, and multi-availability zone.

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

Currently, we have one resource who is working in AWS infrastructure and we have another full-stack developer who is working on another project.

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

We have mitigated the risk of getting down by the increase of traffic and added multi availability zones and improved the security and performance.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

They have a reliable team of experts and their manager is always checking with us. We are a happy client.

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

They are proactive and all the tasks are well documented in the timesheet.

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

Till now we are very happy but there is always room for improvement.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of a fitness based wearable company headquartered in Canada

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

We already had a development team centred around a web application. As we expanded our target market to include B2C we contracted VentureDive to create our mobile application.

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

We had a referral from an investor who had worked with another company that used VentureDive

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

They were to deliver a Mobile application in an iterative fashion.

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

We had a PM, QA, DevOps, Designer and 2 Mobile devs

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

Our application launch was a complete success and had very low friction with initial users.

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

The PM was fantastic and always communicated in a timely manner. They scheduled the right amount of calls and were very clear and responsive in slack.

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

Their mobile app development, UI/UX, and QA teams always impress us.

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

They were great for projects that were well defined and had small overlap with our existing infrastructure. Their DevOps team was good at supporting internal developers within VentureDive, but we found that they were lacking experience when it came to supporting modern cloud infrastructure best practices.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the tech product owner in my company. We are sort of a startup in providing wellness and lifestyle services.

For what projects/services did your company hire VentureDive Pvt. Ltd., and what were your goals?

We wanted to develop a mobile application that provides mental wellness services. Our goal was to have a simple, easy to use app that can be easily navigated by laymen who have had no prior experience of using such online services. A major requirement was for the app to display multiple languages which may not follow the english alphabet.

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

VentureDive is quite well-known in the market here and enjoy a solid reputation. They would appear in the top 3 list of vendors for mobile app development.

Our main deciding factors were:

• Cost of development
• Vendor portfolio of apps
• Market reputation and references
• Attitude of the team and top management during pitches

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

A one week discovery workshop was conducted to hash out all application requirements. A detailed report along with sample wireframes were presented. We worked on the wire-frames and screen designs with Venture Dive's team. Final requirements were passed onto the software team which re-validated them and started their work. We got weekly updates and test versions of the app. Overall the app took 2 months to build and roll-out to stores. Tech stack used was ReactNative for FE / JAVA Springboot for BE

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

Main POC was the Project Manager. Additionally we had a group on Slack where the Lead Architect and the Business Analyst would ask questions for clarity. We also interacted with the lead developer for setting up our apple/google environments etc.

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

The app has generally received very positive feedback. We delayed the digital marketing campaign for a month or so as we werent sure whether to launch globally, or in a particular country to start with. The response after our marketing campaign has been phenomenal. We have received over 5K downloads within 3 weeks and a 4.5 star rating, in a market where the concept of mental wellness is relatively unknown.

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

Project Manager was quite responsive and held weekly meetings for updates. In case clarity was required, adhoc meetings would also be setup. We used slack for communications, basecamp for tasks and file sharing and Google drive for storing all project documentation. Timelines were adhered to by and large. There were a couple of hiccups that are normal for projects, but overall we met our timelines.

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

The level of ownership taken by the team is phenomenal. Never did I feel I wasn't getting support, even after the project was completed. This is why we have retained VD for providing ongoing support. Secondly their resources are top-notch.

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

We did have a few disagreements on features where we thought something was in-scope whereas VD team said it wasn't. There were times we felt something is "naturally" in scope even if its not explicitly written down. Perhaps before every sprint, a short feature discussion can be done to just clarify expectations on specific functionality, while keeping it in the scope of the project.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am engineering manager for one of our core teams. We provide IoT solutions to modernise automotive industry, trucking in particular.

For what projects/services did your company hire VentureDive Pvt. Ltd., and what were your goals?

Our support team needed some tools to be build to improve particular ATRs linked with those tools. Goal was to build and deploy support tools.

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

Don't have details.

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

Target was to deliver 5 support tools and some additional work. Delivery of each tool was a milestone. Tools were built using RoR. Project planning and execution was done using SCRUM.

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

2 persons for first 5 months. 1 person for last month. Mid-Level RoR backend engineers.

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

Team was able to complete all 5 support tools. These tools are now actively used by our support team to resolve customer outreaches.

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

Project management was done in house. VD was not involved in this process. Communication channel was primarily email. Coupled with bi-weekly calls.

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

Collaboration and coordination with VentureDive Pvt. Ltd. were seamless. All the challenges that we faced along the way were entertained and resolved in timely and collaborative manner.

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

There was need for 1 more RoR resource of same level. But through VD, we could not find one that fit our needs. RoR resources are not in abundance, but being a company that has to deal with clients working with all sorts of technologies, they should build resource pool with unique skills up front.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Souqalmal provides financial education and comparison tools for digital users seeking guidance on personal finance, banking and insurance in U.A.E., KSA, and Bahrain. I manage business development and operations of the company.

For what projects/services did your company hire VentureDive Pvt. Ltd., and what were your goals?

We hired VentureDive Pvt. Ltd to take complete control of our technology segment - E2E management of the website, including new feature developments, upgrades to digital architecture, and handling of all BAU tasks from a technology perspective.

How did you select VentureDive Pvt. Ltd. and what were the deciding factors?

Their past experience with multi-national organizations, professional approach to client management, deep understanding of our technology requirements, and niche expertise in each team member, were the primary deciding factors.

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

Complete management of all technology requirements.

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

• 1 - Project Manager
• 1 - Front End Developer
• 1 - Backend Developer
• 1 - Senior Solutions Architect
• 1 - Business Analyst
• 1 - DevOps Manager
• 1 - UI / UX Designer

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

1. Consolidation of all backend technology
2. resulting in cost optimization by 65%
3. Timely delivery of new projects
4. resulting in 15% revenue increase for the company
5. Timely handling of business model pivot

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

Extremely professional, efficient and thorough.

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

Professionalism and can-do approach to all of our requirements. They have immediate support available from all team members and that is really impressive.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We deliver healthcare services to low income communities in Pakistan. I am Deputy Director at the organization.

For what projects/services did your company hire VentureDive Pvt. Ltd.?

To develop an integrated digital health platform to link different healthcare services.

What were your goals for this project?

To improve the overall efficiency of our work and health outcomes.

How did you select VentureDive Pvt. Ltd.?

They had some key technical resources with extensive experience in developing digital health tools for low resource settings.

Describe the project in detail.

10 integrated modules covering different parts of the healthcare journey.

What was the team composition?

Project manager, architect, front-end, back-end and QA engineers.

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

Over 90,000 women and children registered in the system.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Excellent.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Strong focus on working through problems with the client.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Documentation of work can be improved.

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO of the company.

For what projects/services did your company hire VentureDive Pvt. Ltd., and what were your goals?

To develop an e-commerce website based on the Shopify platform.

How did you select VentureDive Pvt. Ltd. and what were the deciding factors?

I selected them for prior experience, flexibility, and cost.

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

They delivered a website built on Shopify.

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

5-6 people, including: Project Management QA Backend Frontend

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

Site is live and orders are being placed.

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

Strong communication and client management, with the flexibility to set up the project as the customer wants and scale up and down the team based on needs.

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

They were very flexible in finding the right team members to work on the project with us. They have good experience and the team is well versed with working with international clients.

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

Overall very good. It is difficult to manage changing client needs, and they do a good job of it.

Please describe your company and your position there.

CTO of zGlue

For what projects/services did your company hire VentureDive Pvt. Ltd., and what were your goals?

Software Development for Design Automation

How did you select VentureDive Pvt. Ltd. and what were the deciding factors?

Software development for Careem

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

Software developer team augmentation including full-stack, DevOps, and QA.

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

10

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

Top-notch dev process

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

They showed top-notch development process and project management.

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

On demand high-quality dev resources

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

none