ruby on rails agile - technical excellence delivered
DESCRIPTION
This is a presentation of a very agile development team, Ruby on Rails experts with profound international web projects experience. Our main client base is located in Japan. Currently we are looking for further business opportunities in the USA and UK.TRANSCRIPT
Ruby on Rails Agile
technical excellence delivered
March-April 2010
If your project is suffering from…
• High cost of change management• Poor software code quality and maintainability
• Lack of technical expertise and leadership• Complicated and inflexible processes
• …then we have an answer
Who we are
• A cohesive team of enthusiastic professionals• Developing applications with Ruby since 2006– Social networking, collaboration & teamwork– Mobile and Gaming
• Experienced in large scale international Web projects – 100M+ page views per month– 600K+ users, 50K+ daily active users
Our main clients
• Pikkle, Japan’s leading social games publisher– http://pikkle.com/company/factsheet– Our projects featured on:– http://www.slideshare.net/d3ntaku/pikkle-social-
games-japan
• Exvo.com, an online teamwork solutions provider (our former client)– http://desktop.exvo.com
Our projects – Pocket Aquarium
• A very successful social game deployed in Mixi, one of the most popular social networks in Japan
• The application gets ~10000 new users per day, the number of daily active users is roughly a half of all the registered users
• It is a Ruby on Rails application with Flash Lite 2 front-end.
Our projects – Rhythm Star
• Rhythm Star is another social game on top of Mixi and OpenSocial container
• It's a Ruby on Rails application with Flash Lite 2 front-end. The application has 600,000+ registered users
Our projects – JooJoo.jp
• JooJoo.jp is a social network launched by Pikkle Inc. containing multiple games and other social features
• It is a Merb application with Flash Lite 2 front-end• One of most challenging projects our company ever
had because of massive refactoring work needed to fix problematic code produced by several other outsourcing companies
• Pikkle Inc. don't use any other outsourcing company except our team for their projects after Joojoo.jp project
Our services and contribution
• We have suggested the architecture, design and back-end implementation using BDD/Rspec (http://rspec.info) as well as deployment on Amazon AWS with auto scaling, performance optimization
• We have also established XP (Extreme Programming) based process and consult client's onsite team remotely regarding various development methods and techniques
Our projects – Get it Done for Exvo
• Get it Done is one of applications developed for Exvo.com
• This application is very similar to famous Basecamp, but offers unique feature – automated and human quality translation
• We have also developed Exvo ID and Exvo Payments services, used for the Exvo.com suite
• Get it Done was integrated with Exvo ID & Payments
Our people and skills
• Core team of highly-skilled developers• Well-established and proven agile process• Ability to spread the culture and expertise• Access to talented individuals through
rubyonrails.lt community, founded and nurtured by us
• Access to the talent of our students – we teach and do research at Vilnius University, Lithuania
• Project coordinators based in the UK and USA
Our expertise
• We have developed numerous Ruby on Rails and Merb applications, however we have strict nondisclosure agreements preventing us from naming the clients, in most cases
• If you are interested in some specific expertise, do not hesitate to ask us for more information
Our strengths
• We are passionate and committed to achieve and deliver
• We tailor the process to our customers’ unique needs and provide them on-going support through mentoring and coaching
• We have an excellent track record of helping our clients to succeed
Agile Process
Open Source
Key focus areas
• Technical enablement of Web start-ups • Agile enterprise projects• Assistance to struggling projects