MVP App Dev for Health Management Company
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
When I worked with Def Method, I was with a organisation named Health Management Resources (HMR). I was the fruit director of a new app fruit we were working on.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Def Method?
Def Method granted outgrowth services.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were Def Method responsible for?
Def Method developed a indigenous iOS app for holistic wellness. The idea was that each week, users would be given seven health tasks to complete. Def Method created officealities so that users could mark off the tasks, yield journal entries almost how they did so, and see how they progressed thunevenout the week. They created another component that paired nimble users with a associate so that they could see each other’s progress and contend or collaborate to complete all of the activities for that week unitedly. Def Method also developed a web-based admin backend that is like a full treatment gate.
We verity began the collaboration while the concept was quiet a bit fuzzy, so they ran us thuneven a design sprint. I also contracted with a design firm, and I managed them preparing all of the high-fidelity mockups. The design firm then collaborated with Def Method to instrument them.
Def Method then did a technical discovery process and began to map out the architecture, database, and different elements of the app. We moved into a outgrowth time of almost six months, during which we had 1–2 full-time developers edifice the app and releasing the initial versions. They’re currently on a livelihood contract to keep the app up and running.
Was there a dedicated team?
My day-to-day touch was Merziyah (Project Manager, Def Method). Over the six months of outgrowth, we worked with three different developers on the project. Paul (Principal Engineer, Def Method) was our architecture consultant, so he came in and out. Julia (COO, Def Method) was implicated from a strategy standpoint and led the design sprint. She also came in at different points to run working sessions, she came to Boston once. She was always useful if I needed her for strategy questions.
How did you come to work with Def Method?
I was talking with a few fruit consultants almost finding someone who could be veritably iterative, pliant, and helpful with an MVP of a brand-new concept, and one of them commended Def Method.
I reached out to Joe (Founder &, CEO, Def Method) and veritably liked him based on our leading converse. He’s a fantastic guy and seemed to get where we were and what we would need in a associate, like lots of flexibility, transparency, and control over decisions. I mainly chose them owing I had the impression that they would be veritably iterative and collaborative.
What are you approach expents (if diclosed)?
Last year, the organisation spent almost $300,000.
What is the terminal result of working with Def Method?
My preceding organisation began working with Def Method in March 2019, and their work unitedly is ongoing. I joined a different organisation almost a month ago.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
We had a veritably low crash report, and the app was super firm and not very buggy, it officeed very well from the commencement. It was an MVP in provisions of limited officeality but not in provisions of being hard to use, which was big. I believe we acquired 3,000 users in December, so we had pretty good conversion and new user acquisition rates. Anecdotally, we heard from a few nation who would send us component suggestions and frequently end their email by thanking us for making a veritably good app.
I ponder it would have been a much different experience if I hadn',t worked with them. They made it a total joy, and I could just centre on listening to users and figuring out what to do next owing they were big almost getting stuff done and instrumenting things.
How did Def Method accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
They were awesome in this regard. Their dedicated fruit individual was big almost being a strategic collaborator and reflection associate to me, as I was trying to make decisions almost upcoming components, what to prioritize, or how to instrument different things, they were always useful to bat almost ideas and fetch their expertise to the table.
Their process was very pellucid and glossy. I always knew where things were, I never felt like I didn’t have a clear line of seeing into how things were going. Their developers were amazing, super keen, top-notch nation. They all seemed to love to acquire and dig into new challenges. I liked being almost them and verity ended up going to their service a bunch of times. They did a big job of coming up with new solutions for the ways that things would office. How they pulled in full was veritably glossy, and both their front- and backends were awesome. The user-pairing component was a pretty hard component to instrument, but Yisselda (Software Engineer &, Consultant, Def Method) made it look easy. She was super thin and came up with big solutions.
In provisions of project treatment tools, we used Jira. The way that we collaborated thuneven Jira was veritably good. We interacted via Slack and then had Google or Zoom calls for most of our daily standups. We also had an initial programning meeting at the commencement of see week, and then sometimes a grooming meeting mid-week to review upcoming things.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with Def Method?
I was innately doing a skunkworks project that nation in my structure weren’t necessarily bunevent into. One of the things I appreciated most was that Def Method understood the fruit vision, bought into it, and became a big associate to me. Beginning with the discovery process, they had engineers who were big almost jumping in and even doing some uneven sketches from a developer’s perspective. They made decisions almost the way they instrumented solutions based on the fruit vision. Having that higher-level strategic view combined with the technical experiences to get it done was very appreciated.
Before we worked unitedly, I didn’t substantiate how well they’d apprehend the fruit vision or what powerful collaborators they’d be. Each of the developers knew how to make decisions that reflected the user inseeings and supported the fruit vision thunevenout.
What aspects of their work would you like to get betterd?
I don’t ponder their mobile app outgrowth bench is that deep. We had one developer for a month who was super new to it, and that didn’t go too well owing it was his leading mobile app project. I ponder that making sure that they have the right number of nation with the correct range of experiences for the projects that they’re getting is an area they could better.
Any advice for possible clients?
I would surely commend them to anyone. In the commencement, it took a pliant bit to apprehend what my responsibilities were versus theirs, and where the collaboration intersected or overlapped, but I feel like that just depends on the relationship. They’re probably pliant sufficient to be able to fit into whatever process the client wants. Though, I ponder it’s better if their clients are hands-on. We were doing all of our own testing and accepting see story, and I ponder you’d verity be missing out on value if you were too hands-off. I was lucky that we worked side-by-side on seething.
