I liked their team culture, positivity, and responsiveness.
- Service
- UX/UI Design, Web Development
- Industry
- Other industries
- Investment
- $50,000 to $199,999
- Timeline
- Nov. 2022 - June 2023
- Company size
- 11-50 Employees
- Location
- England
- Reviewed
- Sep 28, 2023
Project overview
Codepixel developed a custom web-based app for a pharmaceutical company. The team was also responsible for the UI, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, testing, launching, deployment, bug fixes, and ongoing support.
Background
Please describe your company and position.
I am the Co-founder of Simple Pharma
Describe what your company does in a single sentence.
Provide end to end distribution and compliance services to pharmaceutical product owners.
The challenge
What specific goals or objectives did you hire Codepixel to accomplish?
- Development of a custom web-based app which will help the company streamline its inbound operations
The solution
How did you find Codepixel?
Referral
Why did you select Codepixel over others?
- Pricing fits our budget
- Referred to me
- Company values aligned
How many teammates from Codepixel were assigned to this project?
2-5 Employees
Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.
- Project Management Plan : follow-up of deliverables, budget, planning / leadtime, risks and issues, meetings
- Business requirements
- User interface requirements
- Technical Requirement Specifications (technology, robustness,scalability)
- Tests book : conformity to technical requirements / stress tests / performance tests scenarios
- DevOps and cloud infrastructure
- Release and deployment
- Ongoing support and bug fixing
Results
What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
- Conformance to project timelines (release happened within 1 month of the initial estimate);
- budget conformance (we were 10-20% over budget);
- user functionality (we deployed ~80% of the features that we set out to deploy);
- in-practice use (our team are using the software for their daily work, signifying that it has been a success to some degree)
Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?
The Codepixel team kept a good handle on project management, keeping an up-to-date Clickup project management interface which aligned the project team on progress. We had frequent progress meetings and sprint reviews which aligned everyone on progress. Our team was often the bottleneck for progress, and we could not keep up with the pace of development of Codepixel.
The team has remained attentive after deployment and have been helpful in fixing bugs and allowing us to make the app useful in practice.
What was your primary form of communication with Codepixel?
Virtual Meeting
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
I liked their team culture, positivity, and responsiveness. The team was very professional and listened to feedback and always tried to improve.
Are there any areas for improvement or something Codepixel could have done differently?
We would have liked to have more hands-on problem solving and suggestions about how to build the solution, rather than simply following our instructions and being constrained by the user interface that we designed.
As a company without developer resources in house, we were looking for more support in designing HOW it should be built and would have appreciated Codepixel's viewpoint on this, and also some coaching on what is possible / what is not possible. I think we arrived at this way of working in the end, but it took a few iterations and frustrations on both sides until we reached this way of working.
Results & feedback
Codepixel adeptly delivered the app within a month, deploying 80% of the intended features; however, the project surpassed the budget by 10-20%. The app was used daily by the client's team; an indication of the project's success. Codepixel's project management and professionalism were commendable.
