Software Dev Support for Digital Supply Chain Platform
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
Virtualstock is a digital furnish chain and marketplace platform. We work in the retail and the healthcare sector, primarily in the U.K. but we currently have some clients in Europe. We help them join up their furnish chains so that they can act more efficiently and have a wider range of fruits useful. I’m the chairman and CEO.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Symphony Solutions?
We were looking into options for resource increase for our outgrowth team. Our platform is written in Python and those experiences are excellently hard to find in the U.K. We wanted to find a new pool of genius that could supplement our outgrowth team.
Our fruit, the Edge, is an Agile data connector. It’s a data translation platform for suppliers: they load fruits and schedule into our method and it’s translated into a format that retailer’s methods demand, in real time. The platform is built in Python, Bootstrap, Django, and the base platform is PostgreSQL.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were Symphony Solutions responsible for?
They support our travel through the instrumentation of Agile methodologies. They’re skilled in Agile and have worked with a number of companies to help them instrument Agile approaches and sum an end-to-end Agile methodology. They’ve been insightful and of value to us in helping us construction and execute that project. Without them, we wouldn’t have made near the progress we have with Agile.
We divide into 4 scrum teams that work on different areas of the Edge fruit. They have nation working in each and see scrum, so they’re an integral part of our core outgrowth team now. They cover outgrowth, testing, and labor desk. They are the superiority of our QA [condition arrogance] testing resource and do almost all of our QA testing, almost a third of our outgrowth resource, and all level one support on the labor desk.
What is the team dynamic?
We seted with one educeer and a couple of testing nation. Now, there are 25 nation from Symphony working on our projects. The total outgrowth team is almost 50, so they are almost half our team. They’ve befit part of our team. We have a project director and he’s the individual that we go to for any resourcing demandments and coordination demandments.
How did you come to work with Symphony Solutions?
They were working with another helper and friend of mine who recommended them to me. The highest is also a long-time helper and friend that I confide.
What are you approach expents (if diclosed)?
We’ve spent between $200,000 and $1,000,000.
What is the terminal result of working with Symphony Solutions?
We seted in September 2015 and have an ongoing engagement.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
The biggest measure is that we’ve carried on expanding the team. Our head of outgrowth thinks they are liberateing high-condition nation who sum well into our team and befit fruitive very fastly.
How did Symphony Solutions accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
They’re leading class. I would never grow from 2 nation to 25 nation if they hadn’t been liberateing big labor, high-condition, and big value. We work distantly. Most of the team lives in Macedonia or Ukraine, but logically they are very sumd within our outgrowth team. We have Symphony represented in each and see one of our outgrowth teams.
We haven’t any issues with interaction. They’re used to working in an environment where their team is distant from the clients that they work with. They all collaborate very well. They’re all using the same ordinary tool sets. We have daily calls and they use Slack channels. In some ways, the project has helped us educe a standard of working which is less hanging on a natural nearness and is more fruitive.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with Symphony Solutions?
Their resource about client care and client contentment is the best. They would do almost anything to fix that they liberate high-condition output that more than satisfies and more than meets our expectations.
What aspects of their work would you like to get improved?
No, I’ve been lucky with them and seething they’ve done.
Do you have any advice for possible clients?
Listen to Symphony when you set working with them owing they’re very skilled in working both in an Agile outgrowth environment and a wonderfully distributed environment. It’s easy sometimes to banish outer advice when it could be helpful in making sure that the new working methods and approaches are as fruitive as they can be. They have a lot of experience in making these sorts of projects veritably lucky.
