How do you involve clients in your process?
Creating a digital product is a collaborative team sport. We ensure all ingredients for success are available in the right amounts, adapting our team to fill gaps in our clients' product development. Sometimes we focus on core full-stack engineering, other times we provide a complete product and design team.
With extensive experience in collaboration and communication, we tailor our approach to each situation. We typically hold weekly stakeholder meetings, daily tech standups, design workshops, roadmapping sessions, and other workshops to create a compelling product and follow a strategic plan.
How flexible is your team in adapting to changes during the project?
Agile has become a controversial term in our industry. Nevertheless, we aspire to be philosophically agile, adapting to changing priorities or business situations in product development and software engineering. We provide estimates and update plans for drastic changes to aid decision-making and ensure maximal value.
We also avoid unnecessary or undisciplined changes. Given the costs of change, it's crucial to maintain focus on project commitments. An excellent team only changes objectives and plans when warranted, avoiding unnecessary disruptions.
How do you handle project timelines and deadlines?
We work closely with clients to establish realistic timelines and ensure timely delivery through effective planning and regular progress updates. We start by understanding business aims and external factors influencing the timeline, then layer on the scope of work and technology estimates, considering uncertainty and risk of overruns.
We create a plan that aligns desired dates with the product development process and frequently review team progress to stay in sync with changing business realities. We aim for frequent releases with clear progress.
What sets your agency apart from other software development companies?
First, we integrate product and design into our development process, unlike many software agencies that focus solely on code. We prioritize overall product strategy and project planning to maximize client value.
Second, we have deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, which offers efficient, full-stack engineering by minimizing complexity between back-end and front-end development.
Third, our team is distributed between the US and Mexico, with international experience including Europe. This makes us well-suited for global-context apps and allows us to work cost-effectively without compromising quality.