Saas Empowering Holacracy in Organizations
Challenge
Glassfrog is a Holacracy support tool that helps design and maintain the Holacracy structure in your organization. Holacracy itself is an agile organization framework that works perfectly for startups and modern companies. GlassFrog makes it possible to manage employees, their roles, and responsibilities in a simple and visual-rich way. The client was looking for an experienced remote team to increase their velocity. As it was an ongoing and long-term project, we didn’t have a specific goal to achieve as the end result. We started with app performance optimization and major UX changes implementation and then moved to more challenging tasks within Glassfrog product strategy.
Solution
The Glassfrog core team had strong processes in place long before we started working with them, which significantly simplified our onboarding. Right from the beginning, we had the following processes/tools in place: Agile tasks board with Pivotal Planning meetings Point system for estimations Continuous integration and delivery Tests infrastructure We couldn’t expect less from the creators of Holacracy, but we were pleasantly surprised anyway. The Glassfrog team had the development processes in place very similar to ours, with classic continuous delivery (when there are no release dates and updates are being delivered as soon as ready) and automated tests. The guys strictly follow the Holacracy principles and have well-described roles, responsibilities, and processes in place. And the most amazing thing is that they manage all of that within the Glassfrog app, which makes everyone working on the project as a developer deeply understand how it works from the user’s perspective. The guys from Glassfrog were looking to expand their team with processes-driven people who truly believe in remote work and our team has become a good addition to their core team. We had similar processes and culture that allowed us to integrate deeply and work as a single team. We’ve been working on GlassFrog for a few years already and implemented a variety of features: from UX improvements to complex infrastructure changes which led to significant performance improvement. All of that combined allowed us to dig into the project and start bringing value quickly.
Results
Apart from the obvious benefits such as new features implemented with our help, Glassfrog team benefits from working with us in the following ways: It allows scaling the team easily depending on the scope of work . Having developers across the globe Glassfrog always has someone available to fix an issue quickly It’s reasonable from the financial perspective. No need to rent an office, pay HRs, accountants, etc. Working with our team encloses access to the expertise that they don’t have in-house
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