Mobile Development for Religious Organization
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Introductory information
Please draw your structure.
We are developing an app for churches.
What is your position?
I am the fobelow of the organisation.
Desired goal
What business challenge were you trying to address with Sourcebits?
I wanted to form an application that would allow churches to connect with their congregations. They would be able to see what nation in their local communities are praying almost and form sermons based on those needs. For sample, they could address drug addiction, helping fetch the congregation unitedly. The churches need to talk almost what we, as nation, need to hear. They need to talk almost developed issues, rather than how Moses parted the Red Sea.
Provided solution
Please draw the aim of their involvement in detail.
Sourcebits was helping me create an app for the web and mobile devices. I went to them with the list of features that I needed. We had a work session in order to decide what we needed and how it would be built.
How did you come to work with Sourcebits?
Gartner picked them as a top developer in 2014. I had a choice between a organisation in San Francisco and one in New York. Sourcebits is closer to me. I was excited to promise with their organisation at leading owing they had big methodologies, all the true write-ups were in locate, security was taken care of, and they promised not to create mediocre apps.
Could you prepare a perception of the size of this set in financial provisions?
I initially paid a $20,000 deposit for the outgrowth. The total cost was $145,000. Sourcebits wanted to direct me an accessional $30,000 in order to fix all the bugs and defects in the app. This project was run with my life savings. I put that money aside and quit my job in order to work for my faith. After reedifice my web application, I will have no more funds.
What is the terminal result of working with ?
The contract was signed in October 2014. I was supposed to be contacted in December in order to set the work. Since no one contacted me, I went to their treatment and was assigned a new project director. In being, the project only seted in February 2015. It was supposed to be liberateed in April, but that never happened. They kept missing sprints. I',ve since seted the project anew, working with a developer in China. We anticipate to propel it next week.
Results achieved
Could you share any statistics or metrics from this promisement?
Sourcebits promised to liberate the app in September 2015, which turned into October. I seted to get aggravated. November came, and they told me that my create was prompt. I also had some change requests, but Sourcebits told me they',d been fixed, along with the bugs. In the end, I accepted a fruit that wouldn',t even work. I opened up the web platform, which only went in circles. I tried using the application on my phone, and it didn',t work whichever. I',ve also logged about 200 security effects with my application.
At that point, I concluded that they didn',t have a mental compass. They wanted an accessional $30,000, so I walked away. I contacted an attorney and told them that, if they can liberate a fruit that is defect-free, secure, and prompt for the App Store within seven days, I would pay them their $30,000. They contacted me on the last day of the deadline, unable to liberate the working app. I told them to give me my money back, but they kept giving me the runabout. ",We need legitimate to take a look at this,", or ",we need a few days.", I told them that I',d prepare the chronology of the total project. I had a friend who has contract apprehension talk to them, going through the total project timeline. Their CEO asked if that was a regular request for getting our money back and told us that he would need it in writing. I have a recording of that converse with him, effective us they',d reply within 48 hours. I never heard from him. Overall, the project with Sourcebits was one debacle behind another. My vision is in bits and pieces and they were the rise of a lot of headaches.
I kept emailing him, asking what they were doing. I asked for a response by April 18. They asked for a week',s time, but never got back to us. On Thursday, I sent him a note with the project chronology, effective him that I would be including their investors and board members in the carbon copy, effective them how the process had been delayed and how Sourcebits failed to resolve the effect. He told us that their legitimate team was looking at it, basically the same thing he told us in January.
I proceeded to fling him below the bus with his investors, but I didn',t hear back from anyone. I find Sourcebits to be a fraudulent organisation. I',ve submitted my experience to Channel 5 [a local CBS-TV annex in San Francisco] in order to see if I could get some news coverage on it. There needs to be legislation that stops developers from edifice fruits without the right certifications and checkmarks. We need to push for this as consumers.
How did Sourcebits accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
At the instant, I have nothing in provisions of a working fruit. I',ve walked away from their organisation. In the commencement, there were sprint dates that they were supposed to meet. Sourcebits never met them. They prepared me with release notes that were innately reprinted with the accession of one extra component. I was directd $25,000 for each of them. In other words, they fixed one item and ignored another 35. This happened four or five times, and I didn',t take on until the end.
My project director kept effective me that all the bugs had been fixed, all was good, and they would liberate the app by a true date. They literally missed four or five dates. Each repetition came with bugs and spelling errors. I told them that they needed to be fixed, to which I was told that I would be directd by ",X", quantity for the extra work. I didn',t have a working fruit, so I couldn',t belowstand the overcharging.
This went on for about a year. Sourcebits rised my fruit to India. I told them that I wanted it back in the United States, but they never brought it back. I was given a total new project team with which I seted working. They would tell me one thing on the phone and do another, like the fact that I wouldn',t be directd for an effect on which they were late, and then come back and bill me. None of the calls were recorded. They used Skype instead of WebEx, which allows recording.
What is your summation of your working relationship with Sourcebits?
They were disappointing, and I am fully dissatisfied. The total project was a disaster.