Yugasa Software Labs

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am founder of a psychology related startup and provides consultancy to organisations and health ventures of repute. Some of the agencies, I have worked with, had me as consultant for their digital automation projects where psychology played an important role.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Yugasa Software Labs, and what were your goals?

I was assisting a US startup as brain scientist for writing psychological test for them which aimed to check the mental health of the sports person before, during and after the game. We needed a software development company who could show their technical acumen to develop such a health app for us.

Working with brain to automate results was no easy task. This was an iPad and Android Tab app which should work on playgrounds where there are no internet connections available. An application which could give faster results with 100% accuracy.

SOLUTION

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

We searched vendors over Linkedin and contacted them for our requirements. Since it was a complex project and required good explanation, hence our specs lengthed around 100+ pages. Out of some 7 - 8 agencies in India we heard back from only two companies. Yugasa was one of them.

Though we were not happy with this situation and wanted more companies to show their interest but in a span of our first two meetings with Yugasa, they proved us wrong. We could see that they knew the project closely and had rather started giving us suggestions in the second meeting itself. Their keen interest and ability to understand our need to such deep level encouraged us to take them seriously. Though this was just the beginning and we were still scared.

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

This was an on iPad and Android Tablets app which allowed clubs and individual players to join the platform and appear for their Psychological test during on-boarding. Scoring did not matter at all in this. The test used to help the clubs and the platform know how much does a player scores when he is all well and is in normal condition. App also used to capture the speed with which the player could reply the test.

With every fist level, the player is given next tougher stage to test. After 5 levels of the Brain Game, the app records the data of the player. Now when the player plays on the actual ground and unfortunately if he meets with an accident on the ground, then the app would be offered to the player again to appear for the Psychological test. If the player performs in the Brain Game with the same attention or shows an acceptable lag, then he is found good to continue the game.

But if he fails to attempt the Brain Game with same quality then he is considered to be hit badly on the playground and must leave the game. We needed this app to be done in best technology stack and Yugasa Suggested SWIFT, JAVA and PHP for this project and since we had gained enough confidence in them by this time, so followed their opinion.

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

• An Android Developer
• An iOS Developer
• A PHP Developer
• HTML / CSS / JS Developer
• Partially a Tester
• an AI expert Project Manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The whole project was divided into multiple milestones and we were asked to test these milestones every week. On achieving first 3 milestones, we had our prototype ready which was presentable enough to schools and clubs. Our business idea was not very new but collected enough love in the initial stage itself.

While we had our pipeline of tasks already scheduled for future milestones, we started getting traction and feedback from the market. We were loving the way it was all growing. And Yugasa Backed up us to our expectation in implementing the features as per the priorities we continuously shared with them time to time.

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

We communicated over email, Google Doc Sheets and Skype. I must say that their communication was outstanding, clear and dependable through out our engagement with them. Every Milestone was delivered in time. We always had enough time to test the platform, both milestone wise as well as for the integration test. I am sure, without a good communication and weekly demos, this project with such difficult aim would have turned into a big mess. Thanks to Yugasa for their continuous communication approach.

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

They know their work and carried a humble approach towards the changes. They called this Agile Software Development, but for us it was Yugasa's adapting and accommodating attitude. We were relaxed after giving the charge of the project.

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

We wanted if Yugasa could had deployed more developers in the project when we needed new development and feedback to be handled in parallel. But that could not happen despite our request to them twice. Although they accepted our request during the last couple of months of our project development, which added value in execution at that time.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Company name is fellafeeds Pvt I am Ravi Shankar Bilochi , CEO

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Yugasa Software Labs, and what were your goals?

Software development for FELLAFEEDS a feedback services for offline player

SOLUTION

How did you select Yugasa Software Labs and what were the deciding factors?

Based on their past work and team expertise

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

Feedback app that has the following: 

• Feedback form
• Feedback fo template
• Escalation matrix
• Customer alert
• Employees to be added and identify as per feedback
• Ticket system
• Customer will get mass email and automatic emails

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

4 Back-end Frontend Design a Android

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We got fellafeeds software delivered and it's one of thes best Feedback software available in the market

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

Dedicated team communication over slack and email

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

Their team timeline, commitment, and level of flexibility with changes as per market need were impressive. 

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

Yes But I am not the best judge for that

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Atom, Founder. We're a mobile meditation app

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Yugasa Software Labs, and what were your goals?

A cross-platform desktop app on ElectronJS

SOLUTION

How did you select Yugasa Software Labs and what were the deciding factors?

Online reviews

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

They had to build an MVP with just a few screens and some inter-meditate level functionality like screen-sharing, task tracking etc.

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

5-6 across tech (qa, engineer, even their tech lead was in the project)

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

HORRIBLE Did not deliver, I dont know how they have 5-star reviews, they seem illegitimate to me. They sound sincere but delivered a 2 month project about 75% complete in 6 months riddled with really basic bugs. ANd this is despite of the fact that I had a project manager specially hired to ensure that they actually bother to do the work.

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

No accountability.

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

Their ability to promise and not deliver at all, not even bother to say that they didn't but just to ignore it afterwards

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

Everything