endorsedOngoing

Offshore Development Team & Staff Augmentation for Vision

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development

Industry

Advertising & Marketing

Duration

127 months

Budget

1M - 10M

Start Date

1 January 2016

Team Size

6-10 Employees

Engagement Model

Onshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

76/100

Good

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Client

Vision

Bolingbrook, United States of America

Project Summary

Forte built and continues to maintain an offshore development team and onshore augmentation for Vision, a marketing-execution firm, providing full SDLC support for proprietary platforms. The engagement established a base team that handled development, QA, and integrations while contributing to architecture and scaling with demand. The ongoing partnership has helped the client stay on budget, deliver quality solutions, and adapt to changing customer needs.

Key Challenges

Build a complete offshore team of engineers and QA analysts while augmenting locally
Assemble a productive mix of senior, mid-level, and junior resources to meet critical deadlines
Support and maintain the SDLC for proprietary marketing platforms amid changing customer needs

Project Deliverables

Offshore development team
Onshore/offshore QA team
Full-stack (.NET/SQL/Azure) development resources
SDLC and architecture contributions
Integration support to external systems

Project Solution

Forte provided an ongoing staff augmentation engagement combining onshore and offshore resources to form a scalable development and QA team. Their engineers learned the client's primary platforms and integrations, contributed to architecture and the SDLC, and established overlapping working hours between regions to enable collaboration. A base team (four developers and three QA) was created and scaled as client needs required.

Project Outcome

Stayed on budget while delivering quality solutions
Enabled adaptation to clients' changing needs
Freed client leadership time to focus on business and architectural vision
Provided consistent, long-term SDLC support through an embedded team

Platforms

Cloud

Tech Stack

.NET
SQL
Azure

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“The ongoing collaboration with Forte has empowered the client to produce top-notch solutions. They've allowed the client to accommodate each of their clients' changing needs. They're a flexible and growing team that's built a comprehensive suite of services that the client can consistently rely on.”
Art Ferrara
EVP
Date: 02/05/2020