wwwest solutions

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a Swiss branding company since 1996. We work for international clients

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

On all types of Wordpress web development and mobile application, sometimes with React JS

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

They were very responsive during our first selection and very solution oriented.

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

We discuss the details of the project together. We take care of the conceptualization, and we deliver functional models in Invision, Axshare, Figma and then they realize the content of the model to the pixel. They then deploy on our test servers. The compatibility of all their deliveries are verified by BrowserStack.

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

In general, there are two people per website who are dedicated, but several teams at the same time. Often it is a project manager and full stack developers.

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

The result is very precise, everything that is requested is delivered correctly and verified on mobile and tablet.

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

The project management is efficient, we have a lot of contact via the chat tools, they are very responsive. The project managers ask us a lot of questions as well as the developers, and we try to answer immediately. The process is very fluent.

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

They support us on all web projects and help us when the deadlines are sometimes quite short. We don't make it a general rule, but it happens.

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

Maybe they could offer design or SEO, maybe they already do that, but we don't use it

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm an IT project manager. Founded in 2012, our company was carefully built to change the way companies and government organizations order, lease, deploy, and manage IP addresses. The platform automates a time-consuming manual process for organizations with a need to deploy a large volume and wide variety of IP addresses, speeding up the process and lowering the costs associated with provisioning IPs to the physical and virtual infrastructure.

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

Together with wwwest solutions, we developed WordPress site of the new project. The new page is designed to inform customers about features and not to miss the most important news about the IP address market.

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

We searched online web developers abroad. After interviewing them, we chose this vendor based on their past projects and cost estimate.

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

First, the page design was prepared. Each design part was broken down into separate tasks that formed a common backlog. Each week we planned the tasks for that week. When a programmer has done a task, another programmer had to do a code review. After the code review, the task is passed for testing. After testing, we deploy tasks from the stage to the live environment. We used these tools: Jira, Adobe XD, GitLab.

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 throughout the process. There was also one other website developer from our inside team. Also, the designer and webmaster worked together.

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

Only one - the website is launched. There weren’t very many mistakes after launch.

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

We had daily stand-ups with the team (PM, developers, designer, and webmaster). The project was developed according to the Agile Kanban methodology.

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

This team was a fast and smooth communicator, strong ownership of tasks which they have to do.

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

At the beginning of the project, code reviews took longer, but later the process began to move faster.

Please describe your company and your position there.

wirsindhandwerk.de is a reputation management platform for craftsmen. I am the CTO.

For what projects/services did your company hire wwwest solutions?

The challenge is to scale frontend development speed for our growing business. We have multiple structurally different projects which need to be unified with a common UI. We needed a team of people which are experienced of scaling up from one-developer to a full development team, while making sure that the design / layouting quality remains extremely high and doesn't break the integration pipelines.

What were your goals for this project?

Unify the interfaces, create great developer workflows for frontend developers, and have a state-of-the art UI. Collaboration between our design team, project managers and backend teams is a must.

How did you select this vendor?

I worked with several developers at once, gave them test projects and kept working with wwwest, because not only did they deliver great results on time, but were actually working on improving the processes and deployment pipelines.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

we have our documentation and design wiki, which wwwest were invited to extend upon. wwwest is working on many diverse frontend development tasks and are now a central part of the global team.

What was the team composition?

CTO (me), coordinates: * UX/UI designers (one lead, several freelancers), * two team leaders and several developers with the frontend team (wwwest) * several project managers for subprojects * several backend developers * yes, the team size for wwwest grew from 1 developer to 4 developers (current)

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

We were able to shorten the development lifecycle for frontends, and grow the development from 1 frontend developer to 5 frontend developers without bigger issues.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

we're working with a kanban structure of delivery, wwwest integrated into our workflow without issues and everything worked as expected. we're using a combination of * confluence * jira * slack * github * bitbucket to coordinate & communicate. there were no real language barriers, we all speak english and it works well.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

motivated founders. It's fun to work with them and they care about improving processes. great collaboration is the most important thing for us.

Are there any areas for improvement?

speaking more german would help a little, but within a year, they learned extremely much already