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Magento Migration & Ongoing E-commerce Support for Sports Nutrition Retailer

Services Covered:

E-commerce Development • Website Development • Software Maintenance and Support

Industry

E-commerce & Retail

Duration

128 months

Budget

50K - 199K

Start Date

1 December 2015

Team Size

1-5 Employees

Engagement Model

Nearshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

76/100

Good

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Client

Confidential

Stockholm, Sweden

Project Summary

Forbytes completed a Magento conversion for a large sports nutrition retailer and provides ongoing support for the client's custom content management system. The assigned team includes three developers and a quality assurance tester experienced in PHP and Magento. Forbytes manages the remote engagement with Jira and Confluence and works collaboratively with internal consultants to fix bugs and integrate new features.

Key Challenges

Migrate the company's e-commerce platform to Magento
Difficulty sourcing local (Sweden-based) resources or consultancies able to deliver the required volume of work

Project Deliverables

Magento e-commerce platform
Custom content management system
Ongoing maintenance and feature integrations
Deployment pipeline (GitHub and Jenkins)
Dedicated development team (3 developers, 1 QA tester)

Project Solution

Forbytes primarily worked on migrating and developing the client's Magento e-commerce platform and provided support for a custom content management system. They staffed the engagement with three developers and a QA tester (described as 3.75 dedicated resources overall) who have PHP and Magento experience. The team used GitHub and Jenkins for deployments, started with one developer and gradually increased the team, and maintained the engagement on an ongoing basis with occasional travel between locations for onboarding and collaboration.

Project Outcome

Consistent results within a collaborative relationship with internal consultants
Efficient remote engagement management using Jira and Confluence
Access to highly skilled and experienced developers
Ongoing e-commerce operations with continuous feature development and integrations

Platforms

E-commerce Platform
CMS
Web

Tech Stack

PHP
Magento
GitHub
Jenkins

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.38

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“Forbytes provides consistent results within a collaborative relationship working with internal consultants to fix bugs and develop and integrate new functions and systems. They efficiently manage the remote engagement with Jira and Confluence and recruit highly skilled and experienced developers.”
Anonymous
CTO
Date: 11/29/2016