Company

Dedicated teams and team extension as a service

It doesn’t matter if you are a startup or a giant company, the right people are always key to success. 

The current case is exactly about the people and team extension for one of our clients.

 Unzer (https://www.unzer.com) is a German payment company that builds its own payment gateway, merchant management, and many other systems.  

They have a need to find strong engineers to extend the existing local team. The goal is to reduce cost for hiring processes and people management but leave development speed and product quality on the same level and even improve it.

 

Task

Help clients with the right people around his projects. It requires work as a team extension, follow existing development practices, and assist existing teams with their daily load. And build a dedicated team to work independently on subprojects and cooperate with the client’s project management and product owners.

Goals

  • Build dedicated teams and team extensions
  • Cooperation with product owners and project managers
  • Implement new and improve existing systems from the client's ecosystem
  • Provide software development, automate testing and cloud engineering services
  • React on increasing and decreasing the subteams capacity
  • Report directly to CTO



Challenges

  • Discover existing architectures
  • Learn business domain and specific needs
  • Data Security & GDPR processes
  • ETL and BigData processing

Actions

  • Compiled different teams to handle dedicated tasks and cooperate with existing teammates
  • Provided software development, software architecture, cloud engineering, and R&D services
  • Setup continuous monitoring of the performance
  • Built collaboration between recruitment departments
  • Grown "Business value" principles to stick closer to the client's business needs
  • Implemented transparent price generation algorithm

Results

  • Decreased expenses for internal employment process
  • Flexibility within internal teams capacity management
  • Saved product quality on the same level
  • Improved delivery process (made it more predictable)
  • Proposed and implemented automation solution to simplify products.

 

Duration
60 months
Customer
Biggest German Payment Provider

Industries
FinTech
Services
Staff Augmentation
Technologies
Java / Spring | Frontend / Angular | Frontend / React | Python | Cloud / AWS | DB / MySQL