UX & Web Dev for Child Research Nonprofit
5.0
Feb 15, 2017
From a project management standpoint, Fresh Tilled Soil was fantastic. I think the one piece of feedback that I had for them, and I shared this with them at the time, was the following: we had weekly meetings with them during the entire initial discovery and design phases, working on the wireframes, everything, up until the development. We signed off on everything and then handed it over to the developers. At that point, we stopped having those weekly meetings, and we were communicating mostly on Basecamp. For me, as the project lead on our end, at that point, it became a challenge to feel like I had regular status updates on where the developers were. I shared that feedback with Fresh Tilled Soil, they adjusted, and we started using the to-do list functionality in Basecamp, which I really appreciated. The developers had a list that they updated as they progressed through the project, and I was able to view it, which made me feel a lot better about knowing where we were on a day-to-day basis. That was important because we were developing the content for the website at the same time. For me, it was vital to be able to communicate with the rest of our team about how things were progressing with development, and when we were going to be ready to enter content into the website, etc. That was a piece of feedback that I shared with them, and I appreciated how quickly they responded to it.
