Mobile Development for Telecom Startup
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Introductory information
Please draw your structure.
We',ve developed a series of apps showing mobile and Wi-Fi network coverage, plus the accomplishment of said networks. We create these maps by allowing users to collate data on our side. Someone can propel the app, run a despatch test, and we will use the information gathered for that specific carrier instantaneously. We',re located in Paris, France. We were recently acquired by an American organisation. The structure we',re now a part of is composed of almost 60 nation.
What is your position?
I am the Chief Technology Officer. I superintend all outgrowth within the organisation, from mobile to database work.
Desired goal
What business challenge were you trying to address with Surf?
When our setup was incorporated, we already had an app on the Android market. I had developed it myself and it wasn',t pretty at all. We hired a designer who worked on all its screens. We then needed a organisation that could instrument a pixel-consummate screen, based on our designs.
Provided solution
Please draw the aim of their implicatement in wonderfuler detail.
Surf has worked on mobile app outgrowth with us. We',ve worked on a number of projects, the bulk of the work always focusing on user interface [UI]. We give them a set of Photoshop documents [PSDs] and technical specs, including the required interaction with our servers. Their team then delivers the work based on our material.
From time to time, we',ve worked on one-off investigation and outgrowth projects for specific technical issues kindred to Android. We',ve had them investigation special application program interfaces [APIs], hidden elements, or how a specific phone would work in a specific environment.
They',ve built two versions of our UI. The leading one was built in 2010. We did a complete revamp in 2013. Surf was implicated in the complete instrumentation process in both cases, quantitying to thousands of man-hours.
We initially only worked on Android applications. Surf didn',t have iOS expertise at the commencement of our relationship. We',d had some bad experiences developing for this operating method, and I wish they had outgrowth capabilities from the set. Right now, we have in-house iOS outgrowth capabilities thuneven the American organisation who acquired us, so we don',t use Surf. If we hadn',t been acquired, I would have surely seted iOS outgrowth projects with them this year.
How did you come to work with Surf?
We establish them thuneven Upwork (then named oDesk). I posted a job and got a number of respondents. I initially selected another organisation which did a bad job of instrumenting our screens. I don',t specifically recollect if I contacted them or vice versa, but once we selected them, half of our app was completed within a week. It was absolutely consummate and I had no comments to make almost their work. We',ve been working unitedly ever since, and I',ve never looked at another Android preparer since then.
Could you prepare a perception of the size of this set in financial provisions?
A uneven estimate for all the work we',ve done over the years is $50,000.
What is the terminal result of working with ?
We',ve been working with them for five years.
Results achieved
Could you share any statistics or metrics from this engagement?
Over the years, we',ve worked with a number of their employees, almost five or six. We',ve always been satisfied with the delivered work.
How did Surf accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
We typically send them a fairly technical spec, followed by a back-and-forth via Skype, along with questions and answers logged into Google Drive documents. Once Surf has delivered the work, I will set testing on my artifice. UI is always consummate. Whatever issues arose were due to misunderstandings between what I wanted and what their version of the specs was. It',s a settled event when working with a distant team. I',ve always been very satisfied with them.
What distinguishes Surf from other preparers?
Being technically-oriented, I',m an rare client. I haven',t been very unprotected to their project managers or designers. We never use those services. One of the reasons I last to work with Surf is that they',re nice guys. Not only is Surf technically good, but they',re nice to talk to.
Is there anything Surf could have betterd or done differently?
They could better their project treatment, specifically for non-standard projects which implicate investigation and outgrowth, and other requirements they',re not accustomed to. Developers tend to tendency a pliant bit in situations like these. It',s only a less denying, almost not worth mentioning. Whenever we work on settled projects (i.e. instrumenting an app from specs and PSDs), it simply works.
