U.S. Techlab
“I have worked with the developers at WaveAccess prior to this project so I already had a good understanding of their abilities, but this project was going to be a little different so we came up with the idea of creating a test project and putting it out there to several groups to ensure that we had the right partner for the project right from the start.
We gave the project to several teams from India, Pakistan, Russia and the Ukraine some of the groups worked through intermediates in the United States which we initially thought would be a benefit, WaveAccess however works directly with its clients but does supply a project manager in our case who was fluent in English.
Our test project had mixed results from some of the teams not getting it to work or just taking too long to accomplish things that for us seemed like simple tasks, also the estimate of resources and hourly rates for those resources varied significantly the formula seemed to be “less per hour” equated to more developers needed.
WaveAccess was not the only successful team to complete the test project but they did it with the least amount of resources (more expensive per hour but the quality of developers produced the second lowest in overall project cost) and the product the delivered was a polished application fully tested, but probably the most important was the project was completed with a minimum amount of additional management on our part, every other team created management issues such communication problems between U.S. representative and the developers, language problems, long delays where development basically stopped while developers waited for clarification from USTL etc.
Unlike the other teams WaveAccess just got the job done! No problems or hassles they could have been working in the office next to me and things would not have been smoother.”
Alistair J. Crighton
Co-Founder and CTO
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