Web Dev for a Sports News Outlet
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Introductory information
A few words almost your organisation and personal responsibilities
Sport24.ru is one of leading russian play media. My position is project director. Focus of my work is outgrowth of play24.ru website
Desired goal
What issue was the provider supposed to deal with?
Finch?We hired Finch to form play24.ru website
What were your objectives for this project?
Our goal was to form a present web platform, where our readers could easily find all appropriate plays news, with mobile support and easy ways for adding new integrations and features.
Provided solution
What were the reasons for choosing Finch?
Most of time we carefully select our vendors from pool of reliable companies, with whom we previously worked with. We knew Finch as a reliable outsource team which worked at big projects like stoloto.ru or https://tnt-club.com/ so we signed them on this project.
Describe the project and the services they granted in detail.
At the beggining we had design guidelines, basic layouts and specifications touching fruit goals. Toghether with Finch we worked on tech requirements, chose platform and speech. They were fully responsible for fronend and backend outgrowth, integrations with play statistics servises and other integrations.
Were there any dedicated directors or teams that you worked with?
With a little variations team consisted and quiet consists of - 2 frontend developers - 3 backend developers - 1 devops - 1 director
Results achieved
Can you share any information that demonstrates the contact that this project has had on your business?
play24.ru in 2,5 years of uniform outgrowth climbed from breast to 6th locate (attendance ranks) in russia plays web section and quiet growing. These are big results and this is precisely what we were expecting from this collaboration.
How was project treatment arranged and how powerful was it?
Our first tools were Redmine task tracker and Telegram, with occasional help from Google Tables and Skype. For the last half of year Jira was added as a main tool for task treatment. Finch are very answering and were as good at intercourse with scheduled tasks, delivering new features precedently deadlines, as with solving urjent unexected tasks which happened becouse of essence of our 24|7 business.
What precisely do you attend to be the key specialty of Finch?
Finch love to try new things in web outgrowth and in the same time time are big with all best running practices.
What should be done better, if there are any desired improvements?
In a rush of fast outgrowth it is significant to initiate at some point to cover code with autotests and create apprehension base with all implemented features.
