How we can help
We take ownership of your IT headaches so you can focus on growing your business, finding new customers and innovation.
Drawn from a global talent pool, our expert systems engineers can help you improve customer experience and increase sales. By streamlining, integrating and automating your IT systems we can reduce your operational costs and increase profit. Our fast project startups and agile processes help you react quickly to market changes, and by working together as one integrated team you'll have full visibility of the entire process.
Services
Enterprise Apps
We have a delivery focused approach to app development. We like to start fast and give you a lean product as soon as we can. In our view iterative development is the best way the ensure quality.
Mobile Apps
We take the hassle out of finding and managing mobile app developers. Our unique approach is to use gamification bonuses to get the most out of our development resources.
Systems Integration
Integration and automation is the key to reducing IT costs and increasing productivity. We can help no matter what technologies you already have in place.
Web Deisgn
We can design, build and host your website and web apps. Using design competitions we will ensure you get great designs and excellent value for money.
Resourcing
If you need extra skills or resources for an existing team or project we can find and manage the talent for you. If you want to create a dedicated development team we can do that too.
Support
As well as supporting apps we build for you, we can also support your existing applications and infrastructure. And we can offer 24/7 cover with resources spread across multiple time-zones.
Engagement Models
Staff Augmentation
Staff augmentation is the simplest form of software development outsourcing. It involves transferring the task of building the software development team and providing the place for it to work to the outsourcing provider.
Dedicated Teams
In a dedicated team model, in addition to building the team, the provider also takes care of people management, low-level task management, and process quality. What you get is not a pack of engineers working on low-level tasks, but a team working on a pipeline of projects or providing a certain complete service.
Projects
The third model, project-based outsourcing, is better understood than the dedicated team approach. Instead of a team providing a service or working on projects, you mostly care about the result, not the means that stand behind it.
Our Culture
It might be corny but we believe honesty is the best policy: we will be upfront about what we think is deliverable and how long things will take. We are straight-talking and won’t hide problems from you.
A “them and us” culture can be poisonous for software development. For projects and dedicated development teams we like to create a single integrated team, where everyone has access to all project discussions and documents.
With distributed teams good communication can be difficult. To solve this we have a “remote first” attitude where all communication is documented centrally and we promote a chatty microblogging culture so that everyone is kept in the loop.
Processes
We have a delivery focussed agile approach to software development, although we will tailor our methods around your culture and processes. Our iterative approach to design and development promotes feedback from users and allows problems to be identified early – saving time and money.
When development is underway we have a daily standup meeting to keep the team focussed. Face-to-face video meetings help us solve more complicated problems allowing ideas to be shared and refined in realtime.
To show progress and demonstrate functionality we hold a weekly workshop at the customer’s site. This allows users and management to get their hands on the product and discuss next steps with the development team.
Tooling
We use Slack, Trello, InVision, GitHub and Google Docs to give the development team and the business access to all the project files, chat, code and decisions at all times.
Slack acts as a virtual team room for everything from business discussions to water-cooler chat. Trello, InVision and Github allow visibility and collaboration around requirements, project management, UI design and code.
Google Hangouts allows face-to-face team meetings to promote closer working even if the team is distributed around the world.