Challenge:
ThinkCERCA was an early stage company with limited development resources and funding. Therefore, they needed a cost-effective way to scale and compete with other edtech companies. Their goal was to build an intuitive SAAS platform for multiple audiences: teachers, students, and principals, but they lacked time for resources to learn their business and the technology stack. They were also in dire need of a new content management system
Solution:
Our resources helped the client scale out their development team and increase their speed of delivery. To do so, we added Ember.js and React.js developers to their team to build out an evolved teacher lesson library and grading experience. Additionally, Ruby on Rails developers helped create a new content management system. Even a business analyst and a few quality assurance resources were staffed to round out an autonomous team. To help the team members ramp up quickly, they participated in accelerated onboarding in education through training and on-site visits to Chicago.
Benefits + Results:
In the end, our client was able to scale quickly, bringing on three parallel teams over a four month period after originally starting with just two developers. ThinkCERCA was able to reduce time to market by 225% thanks to TradeHelm’s streamlined development and collaboration capabilities, and they saved 40% on resource costs over 3 years when compared against equivalent full-time employees in the US.
