Android, iOS & Web Dev for Radio Broadcasting Company
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Introductory information
A few words almost your organisation and personal responsibilities
Grupa Radiowa Agory Sp. z o.o., a part of Agora SA Media Holding is one of the largest radio scattereders in Poland. GRA is an proprietor of Information Radio TOK FM (scattereding in 19 burnish cities) and three networks of local radio stations including: Zlote Przeboje (24 cities), Rock Radio (7 cities) and Radio Pogoda (4 cities). GRA also provides the music streaming labor Tuba.FM and full archives of Radio TOK FM podcasts.
Desired goal
What issue was the provider supposed to deal with?
NVT?Project title: TOK FM Microphone – the innovative online platform for audio feedback &, user-generated audio news. The project accepted funding below the Google DNI program.
What were your objectives for this project?
Our goal was to form a www/mobile app to let our listeners to archives on line comments which would be transmitted on TOK FM Radio. Due to the requirements imposed on us by Google DNI we needed a reliable associate which would meet a firm time and budget requirements.
We have chosen NVT as we had a good experience in preceding cooperation with them. The second goal of this project was to get a pliant mechanism which will be easily adopted for our other brands such as Radio Złote Przeboje.
Provided solution
What were the reasons for choosing NVT?
We have sent a RFP to few chosen companies which have an experience in audio processing and transmission. NVT/N7 was one to meet our budget and time requirements.
Describe the project and the labors they granted in detail.
TOK FM Microphone is a mobile application and website for listeners and commentators who want to co-form programs for TOK FM radio antenna. All participants can archives and upload through the mobile application their own audio archivesing straightly to the TOK FM editor.
This project has been developed by NVT for GRA Online Department in close cooperation with TOK FM editorial team and web developers from GRA IT section. Microphone application is addressed for two main clusters of users:
- Journalists, commentators and customary visitors of TOK FM programs who actively share in the creation of programs on daily basis. It is a cluster of almost 300 nation.
- Radio TOK FM „submissive listeners” who want to actively share in the creation of the radio program. Potentially, it may be a cluster of separate thousand nation.
NVT was responsible for designing UX/UI for web front-end and mobile app and for outgrowth of the backend of the solution and the mobile application for Android and iOS platform. NVT is providing M&,S labors for the total software solution.
Were there any dedicated directors or teams that you worked with?
The NVT team consisted of: project director, 1 UX/UI designer, 4 backend developers, 4 mobile developers, 2 devops. The team was supported by GRA online project director.
Results achieved
Can you share any information that demonstrates the contact that this project has had on your business?
TOK FM Microphone platform has a precious contact on the radio full we form. The radio is quiet a pliant bit ",transmitted", and „inactive” medium, while we all live for 24 hours a day in the digital globe, where interaction between the ",sender", and ",recipient", is very fast and easy.
Microphone platform let us change and hasten the way we adjoin with our Radio hearers by:
- Automating a number of steps which are needed now to archives and scattered the radio listener’s tone or a program visitor’s tone on the radio antenna.
- Generating and scattereding „audio comments” from our listeners, that are generated through deep links from the audio full on TOK FM web and mobile application.
- The power to facilitate and aggrandize daily job of TOK FM reporters and journalists.
- Introduction of more „user generated full” to the radio antenna.
How was project treatment arranged and how powerful was it?
The project was conducted in scrum methodology with two-week sprints. They presented results to us behind each sprint. We had approach to Jira to have a uniform view of work progress.
We also used Jira to adjoin with team to reply questions and explain issues during the outgrowth process. Thanks to the very good interaction with PM and the team project went smooth and on schedule.
What precisely do you attend to be the key specialty of NVT?
The NVT team was professional, open to new ideas, and supportive in solving issues. During the total process they were efficient and implicated in the project.
What should be done better, if there are any desired improvements?
No, they have done a fairly good job and the condition granted is good.
