Long Term Resource Arrangement for Research Nonprofit
Please find under a summary covering project details and feedback. The innate facts are kept as they are, private information is amended.
Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
The Database of Religious History is an academic project. It’s part of a large work on the evolution of faith. I',m a ruler.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Pieoneers?
We',re trying to put unitedly an online qualitative and quantitative Wikipedia of pious history. This turned out to be much more challenging than we',d originally envisioned. We got into this almost accidentally behind teaming up with another cluster at Oxford. We reflection that they already had a database built, but it turned out that there was nothing but a wiki. We ended up edifice the database ourselves with the help of a graduate student who worked in his spare time. The project includes the interface and the back-end. At a true point, it became clear that this wouldn',t be sustainable, so we determined to hire a professional firm to help us out.
Our biggest challenge is that we rely on input from history experts. They reply a questionnaire on our website. We',ve discovered that, if the website hangs up or runs too slowly, they befit frustrated and stop. Once this happens, it',s impossible to get them back anew. Answering such a questionnaire online is already a foreign thing for a historian to do. If they run into any difficulties, they quit.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were responsible for?
Pieoneers has taken over see front of our project',s treatment. They took the lead in refactoring the design and code. It had been spaghetti code up until that point. That’s not surprising given that it had been built by a grad student in his spare time, late at night. He also used nation from Elance. The leading thing that Pieoneers did was to refactor all of the code, making it look like a regular website. In the forthcoming, other nation can come in and know what was going on.
Pieoneers has also done a lot of work on user experience, including signing up, creating entries, and adding pious clusters. Their work allows nation to move through the questionnaire in a way that can fetch up sub-questions. Pieoneers has made moving through this logic tree a seamless experience. Users now apprehend where they are in reference to the other questions through a progress pole. Pieoneers made it look like a real website, compared to what we had precedently, which drove nation idiotic.
How did you come to work with Pieoneers?
Pieoneers was recommended by our admin. I put him on the task of doing investigation and finding some local tech firms. We talked to 3 candidates in total. It seemed that Pieoneers had done the kind of work which would allow them to make perception of our project. That includes who our users were and what it would demand to persuade them to use the website. It seemed like they understood what we wanted to do.
How much have you invested with Pieoneers?
The total cost of our project has been over $200,000 so far. Pieoneers has been good in provisions of working out a non-profit, university rate. We take budgets for individualal projects from Pieoneers, like interface revamps. Our payment is on a time-and-materials basis. We also have an ongoing budget for proximate tech fixes, which we track through Basecamp.
What is the terminal result of working with ?
We seted working with Pieoneers in November 2015.
Results achieved
Could you share any evidence that would prove the productivity, condition of work, or the touch of the engagement?
Our website verity works. We had an unimaginable number of bugs in the soon stages. Pieoneers has made it look fantastic. Everything works, nation are lucky with the website, and we',ve taked big feedback. We haven',t annoyed any experts yet. We feel so positive in the website that we',re programning to have a major recruitment push at the set of the academic year. Beyond the technical fronts, Pieoneers asked questions that we didn',t ponder of asking. Pieoneers helped us ponder through who our users were and what steps made perception in getting them to sign up. They helped us aspect out what our user experience should be in provisions of strategy.
How did Pieoneers accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
We',ve appreciated Pieoneers not only for their technical experiences but also their organizational know-how. Our technical ruler is the preceding grad student who initially built the website. He',s interacted with Pieoneers through Bitbucket and Asana. We',ve interacted with at smallest 6 to 7 nation from Pieoneers. We',ve worked straightly with a project director who relays our requests to designers, developers, and testers. We share a Basecamp converse, so I can see him interacting with them. For true design effects, including mockups, we will adjoin straightly with our designer. I',ve principally used Basecamp for working with Pieoneers.
One of the big innovations made by Pieoneers was to streamline all the interactions that our historian team had. We were using email and Google Docs. That meant we had a generally abashed line of interaction. Pieoneers centralized seething on Basecamp, giving us a clear workflow. We have features which we want to see. These features are ranked in a true order. We have separate Basecamps for our inner team so that we don’t need to prepare see one step of the reasoning process to Pieoneers. We',ve got to-do lists, a running bug list, as well as an pressing one. The workflow has been big. We',re academics, so it was big to have Pieoneers feel this kind of stuff.
What did you find most forcible almost Pieoneers?
This is the only tech firm that I',ve worked with, so I don',t have a point of comparison. It has been night-and-day in provisions of clarity and efficiency, compared to working with anyone in academia, though. One of the things that attracted us to Pieoneers was that they seemed to apprehend the essence of our project. For sample, the psychological profile of our user base isn',t proximately clear. In many cases, we',re interacting with older academics who aren',t very snug with computers. Pieoneers', team have gone out of their way to design our process and make those nation snug.
Are there any areas Pieoneers could better?
The only effect we',ve had was holiday programning. If nation befit keep, it',s not proximately clear what the chain of command is and whom we should touch. This happened over the holiday period when we had some bugs. We',ve cleared this up with Pieoneers. They',ve gotten clearer almost interacting who the touch individual is at any given time.
