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We had a big inhouse-team that worked on a new version of our online-store. But there was lack of knowledge and expertise in team management. But the lack of knowledge and expertise was evident and led to financial costs.

We decided to engage an agency and chose Hawking Bros. During the year we worked together and managed to cut our expenses in half and look at the process of web-development from another point of view. Due to interaction with Hawking Bros we have radically rethinked our own principles of task prioritization.

Besides, when a company has inhouse-team, usually nobody counts the cost of tasks. So did we until our coworking with Hawking Bros. They trained us to measure in rubles all tasks, including those completed by our specialists. It helps us examine the balance between benefit and cost.

Hawking Bros team is very scalable. In autumn, which is the most intense period in web-development, we desperately needed several developers. HB rapidly introduced new specialists and in just a month they increased productivity and doubled the number of working hours.

In general, proper principles of Hawking Bros’ management also helped us streamline our inhouse and outsource development.

We have been working with Hawking Bros about 3 years. I suppose it’s the second agency of all that worked with our department and the first of Russian ones that held on during such a long period and with which we keep working together. We are glad to know that the agency is growing and it meets all our requirements. We aren’t limited in only functional QA testing during project acceptance, we also hold code-review and then our security department scans the project in order to find any vulnerabilities. It’s impossible to make everything perfect on the first try. But it’s important for us that the team always takes into account shortcomings identified during last scanning and reviews. Thus, we spend minimum time on checks and recheks.

I hope that in future we will strengthen our collaboration.

It is very important for me that the external team that I outsource tasks, meets the deadlines by 100%, completes all tasks exactly according to the brief, and offers ways to optimize work on a particular block of work. If we agree that the work, taking into account the nuances, wishes, adjustments and features of the project, will be done, conditionally, by Monday at 10 am, this means that on Monday I will have accepted the task completed by the team on this day and at this time. This principle is at the base of my contractor selection strategy. And Hawking Bros fits in perfectly.

Also, talking about Hawking Bros, I would like to praise the team for a clear prioritization of work and quality. Design, technical work-layout and programming-are always performed at the highest level.

I would also like to highlight the approach to project management, which is one of the most important peculiarities for me. I always estimate the approach to me, as to a customer, from the point of view of detailed assessment and elaboration of the task, both at the initial stage of the project, and at the stage when the project is already launched.

Project management in the Hawking Bros team is really very strong, because nothing is forgotten, everything is fixed and done on time. For this, a special thank you to the founders, Egor and Kirill, because they have built the processes in such way that the customer always feels calm and confident.

Hawking Bros is one of our priority partners with whom we worked out plenty of projects of different technical complexity. The team resolve all the issues and problems quickly and that is the main point for us as the promptness of implementation of projects is our key priority. We appreciate the quality of service and development, high skills of budget estimating, scheduling and planning.

Team’s advantages are a wide technology stack, a strong technical staff and flexibility in time and risks’ management, high quality of QA and efficient consulting.

We acquainted with Hawking Bros team via recommendation. They responded to our request rapidly, estimated the task and structurized the roadmap of the project. We agreed on the deadlines and conditions: we needed to relaunch our corporate website ASAP. During all the period of the work with Hawking Bros their managing partner kept in touch with us. The process was progressing quickly and all our updates and desires were taken into consideration and integrated. High rate of work is the strength of the team.

It was vital for our project to launch the website on schedule and it wouldn’t be possible without Hawking Bros. Hardly were there any editings and it was clear that HB team held a QA test. They even helped us with additional tasks even after completing all the job and after payment. We were glad to know that we can ask for some trivia and get response as soon as before.

The team even implemented some additional functions that weren’t mentioned in the Technical Requirements and that we hadn’t discussed before. Eventually it helped us very much when we needed to make some specific adjustments to the website. We didn’t have to deal with the code ourselves or to spend our developers’ time because manager and programmer from HB thought outside the box. Thus they facilitated our future job. Such level of engagement speaks for itself.