Appinventiv

I am the CTO of TaxiCoin

We are digitalizing the taxi industry by personalizing and improving the user experience through an app for ordering taxis.

Referral

6-10 Employees

The development of the whole app has included many important tasks to have it finished. Such as implementation of Google APIs, payment gateways, calling and messaging interface, a complete administration panel, and many more.

We have a working app that fulfills its purpose. We have been able to improve the UX over time and we are getting really good feedback about it.

Appinventiv has an efficient system for communication and delivery of the items they develop. They adapted to the needs of our project regarding deadlines and communication.

We've found Appinventiv's exceptional development skills and outstanding efficiency to be the most impressive aspects. Their ability to deliver a high-quality app within the set deadline showcased a level of professionalism that exceeded our expectations.

None that we are aware of.

I’m the founder and CEO of the company. We sell car spare parts that are mainly tires and batteries.

Our website was developed using WordPress. The platform was limiting, and we had so much trouble with its updates; we had to do nonstop updates manually for the website. As a result, I reached out to Appinventiv to help us find a new solution.

Appinventiv has recommended Magento as the new solution for our website, so they’ve migrated the site from WordPress to Magento. They also worked on giving the website a new look and feel. They’ve developed new functionalities, too. Given that, the project has become a complete website revamp.

I’ve been in contact with three teammates. However, our meetings usually have 4–5 teammates, including the project manager. Sometimes, their director is also involved. One person takes the minutes of the meeting.

I found Appinventiv through a friend’s recommendation. I spoke to my friend about my website problems, and he recommended them. I connected to the team, and they replied quickly to get our requirements and provide solutions.

We’ve invested around $43,000.

We started the project in November 2022, and the engagement is ongoing.

The website hasn’t gone live, so we don’t have specific metrics yet.

Appinventiv has a great project management approach. They document everything and try to keep everybody on the same page. The team is helpful when we need to make changes on the website, providing timelines for our requests.

They are great at providing the solutions that I need.

Their accounting team focuses more on deadlines instead of whether or not my requirements are completed. Sometimes, they go by the timeline even if our requirements haven’t been fully delivered. They keep bugging us with emails and daily reminders.

Be clear with your requirements and document everything you send them. This way, they’ll completely understand your needs. Overall, ensure they understand your needs exactly before implementing anything.

I am the Vice President, IT & Enterprise Architecture of Pride Mobility Products

Pride Mobility Products® Corporation is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of mobility products including Jazzy® Power Chairs, Go-Go® Travel Mobility, Pride Mobility® Scooters, and Pride® Power Lift Recliners. The Pride® family of companies also includes Quantum Rehab®, a leader in complex rehab power chairs, as well as Stealth Products®, the foremost manufacturer of positioning components.

Dominos App

6-10 Employees

The scope of work was to develop a B2B Mobile Application for in the field technicians, Clinicians and providers/business partners. This app was to help them immediately have information at their fingertips without having to carry around a laptop. PQ-365 includes all the Pride Mobility® and Quantum Rehab® resources needed by providers and clinicians.

Integration to several 3rd party solutions and our eCommerce Website SSO have been integral to the overall end user experience, ensuring security and allowing automated Products and Parts ordering. None of this would be possible without the timely attention that was required to gather requirements, successfully complete end-to-end and User Acceptance testing, and the communication and collaboration that was visible on a daily basis.

They worked closely with our team throughout the project to ensure we hit all of our milestones. They remained on target with the budget, even though we made several scope changes along the way. If our scope changes were large, they gave us a separate LOE to address them. Timelines were always in the forefront of their minds, even when we kept changing scope. We worked together to determine a new timeline that worked for both parties.

The Appinventiv team is extremely response. Due to great communication tools, recurring and Ad hoc meetings, we have slowly matured our process across the past 3 years. They help us improve as a company.

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I’m the Software Development Manager at an Australian startup working in the IoT space.

We needed help with IT staff augmentation services.

We use Appinventiv as our development team; we use them in a time and materials capacity.

We've grown the team to around 12 members over the two years. We interact with everyone on the team, but we mainly interface through their project manager.

A previous colleague had worked with them before and recommended them.

Our average monthly spend has been between $10,000–$40,000 for two years.

We’ve used Appinventiv since January 2020.

We measure our success by how well the team works. As an engineering team, Appinventiv follows the engineering process, delivers a quality product, learns from mistakes in general, and refines the process as we go.

We estimate sprints and deliver them; there are none of the issues with project-based models. Sometimes it takes longer, but on the whole, Appinventiv is pretty good at estimating what they do.

We’re impressed with how well they’ve grown as a company. When we worked with them in a project-based capacity, there was no actual scope for an engineering process. Since we’ve changed to time and materials, we have the ability to budget and do all of the overheads we need to do to deliver a quality project.

The main difficulty has been the language barrier. Since I’ve started working with them, individual team members been more active about coming to us, but there’s still occasional miscommunication. I don’t think that’s a weakness specific to them; it’s just the difference between the cultures and this occurs with almost all teams, especially fully remote teams. Overall, Appinventiv knows to ask us if they don’t understand something.

I’d 100% recommend doing time and materials and having an engineering lead in the company to drive Appinventiv’s team. Without clear engineering direction, Appinventiv could make something that doesn’t need to be made because they were told to.

I am the CPTO of a large recruiting and staffing agency in Asia Pacific region.

We identified an opportunity in the market to serve short-term job workers better and provide a better service to businesses that needs them. We wanted to build a mobile first platform that streamlines the entire experience starting from job searching, shift assignment to salary payment for workers. At the same time provide an almost-instant job fulfillment experience for businesses that are looking for workers in short-term roles. We needed to build this solution in a very short time frame, getting a MVP out to market for rapid learning, refine feature sets and build momentum starting with selected industries.

We found them through Google and chose them after comparing against another vendor. The deciding factor was their past experience in the similar domain and their clear communication during the deciding phase.

The project scope includes early exploration of ideas and solutions, defining key features and targeted users, agreement on critical business outcomes and creating delivery milestones that is achievable. Once project requirements and scopes are finalized, the development process starts with wireframes, design systems, screen designs and eventually moving on to agile user stories and continuous releases of completed features.

Over the duration of the project, we worked with approximately 20 people. The team starts small with a few senior leads such as project manager, product owner, but quickly expand as the project moves from discovery phase to design (2 designers joined) and eventually delivery phase. In delivery phase, at any given time we’d be working with 6-8 engineers from various skill sets such as front-end engineers, mobile app engineers, backend engineers, test engineers and system architect.

Prior to a planned Beta launch, we had a series of pre-launch test or pilots planned. There’s a total of 4 test planned with the intention to improve our launch confidence and test/validate ideas pre-launch. All 4 test requires the product to be in various state of readiness so that internal users can run simulated scenarios and real-life scenarios using the platform. The project team managed to deliver on-time and always on stand-by during our test period which at times lasted for 2 weeks. Feedback from our testing groups were generally positive and list of improvement ideas are well received. They always work in a collaborative manner to adjust and refine the backlog based on the learnings from these tests.

Common answers include communication tools (e.g., email, Slack, Jira). The team followed a standard Agile project management style, where we would have a 2-week sprint to deliver high priority tasks, after determining what goes into the sprint in our sprint planning calls. Within the sprint, we would have catch up calls to discuss progress as well as any blockers the team might face. We had a couple of communication tools we used for various purposes:

Collaborative approach on every stage of the development process. And during critical milestones, the team is very supportive and reliable when time critical issues are identified.

Approach in experience design and design system could be improved. When working with more than one designers and multiple platform, consistency is sometimes lacking. UI and interaction sometimes lacks consistency in the design. However when feedback is given, they were always addressed and refined.