Remote Dedicated Team for esurance.ch
Challenge
Time: esurance needed a team built within weeks so that they could honor their commitments and maintain their timeline. Integration: the team had to hit the ground running, plunge into the existing project, fix and maintain code, that was previously written. Communication: given the short period of time for integration of the team, communication had to be addressed swiftly to ensure that nothing was lost in translation and that time was not wasted. The developers needed to advance their English from Intermediate to an Upper intermediate level in order to have an ideal understanding of the product specification.
Solution
Thanks to our access to local talent, our always evolving pipeline, and our in house bench, it took only 2 weeks to provide our client with 2 experienced developers that fully complied with all technical requirements. Thanks to the coordinated efforts of our management and HR department, we settled all legal issues within 2 weeks and arranged a meeting with Esurance's management in Kyiv for the following month. The team migrated from Laravel version 4 to 5.3 module by module, while working on new features creation and deployment. For the time being, the project is under active development and implementation of new features. Mobilunity truly believes in investing in talent, and therefore provides an in house English tutor to developers. With that tutor’s help, within a short period of time the team reached an Upper-Intermediate level of English. Until that happened, for all meetings and standups, the team was given assistance from our Project/Resource managers who are all fluent in English.
Results
Currently the team is over 10 members now and is effectively working with the head office in Switzerland. There are daily stand-up meetings with a team for better coordination of the project. Every Monday the Team Lead has a call with esurance that typically takes less than an hour to discuss the tasks and scope for the following week. On Tuesdays these tasks are discussed with the team. After this meeting the Scrum Master creates story points in JIRA and work begins. Production deployment happens more than once a week, stage server deployment - a few times a day and this is what allows the feedback loop to remain concise and efficient . Retrospective takes place when a sprint is over. It evaluates: - 3 positive moments during the sprint - 2 negative moments during the sprint - 1 suggested improvement The team analyzes finished sprints, highlighting all improvements that have to be taken into consideration.
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