Why Choose Us?

If you aren't quite ready to call or email us with your questions, this page provides some additional insight into why we are good folks to work with when you need to implement a custom IT solution quickly. Since you may be busy and/or detail-oriented, we provide our self-justification in both short and long forms:

Short Answer

We are well-rounded, experienced, and reasonably entertaining technology professionals who have built an IT services company on a core set of technologies and principles that allow us to build high-quality software very quickly.

Long Answer

You have many choices when it comes time to select an IT services provider. Here are ten reasons why you should work with us:

  1. Technical Competence: We have gained a deep understanding of the software development process based upon over a decade of full-lifecycle project experience in a variety of industries, technologies, and problem domains. We built and maintain ProjectPipe.com, a hosted project management solution used by project teams around the world.
  2. Strong Communications: We are very good at helping you explain exactly what you need, even if you aren't exactly sure what that is up front. Otherwise, you could end up with a robust, well-documented implementation of the wrong system.
  3. Collaborative Online Project Infrastructure Where possible, we leverage ProjectPipe.com (our next-generation web-based project management solution) to provide secure online project infrastructure for our client engagements, including document sharing, issue tracking, and source code management.
  4. Honest Project Resourcing: The individuals that you work with in the pre-sales process comprise the core of the team that will successfully deliver your project. We do not play the Bait-and-Switch game that plagues the IT consulting industry.
  5. Practical Technology Adoption Unlike many in our industry, we chose not to jump on the Ruby-on-Rails bandwagon for a variety of reasons that history has started to validate. We believe in the Python-centric technology stack that we advocate and its long-term prospects for sustainable growth and adoption in small team and Enterprise settings alike.
  6. No Buzzword Bingo: We have grown immune to the siren song of IT buzzwords. As the company behind ProjectPipe.com, we have plenty of test application infrastructure to use for R&D, and we do so on our own dime. We will never use your project as a sandbox to play around with new technologies to add buzzwords to our resume.
  7. No Magic: We choose frameworks and libraries that balance productivity with developer control. We do not use tools that make today's development a dream and tomorrow's maintenance a nightmare.
  8. We Tread Lightly: We recognize that Change Management is one of IT's greatest challenges, and try to make sure that our solutions have a small, clearly defined footprint in your application portfolio.
  9. Clear and Concise Deliverables: The same degree of effort and polish that goes into our proposals also goes into the written deliverables that we leave behind.
  10. We Play Nicely in the Sandbox: We understand the challenges faced by the various stakeholders in a larger IT organization (PMOs, DBAs, IT/Business Liaisons, etc.). We leverage this empathy in our planning and day-to-day interactions to ensure that we can maintain positive forward momentum while meeting the needs of our various client constituents.
  11. Adaptability: You never know less about a project than you do at its start. Therefore, we go into every engagement realizing that some change in requirements, priorities, or scope is inevitable. Through strict adherence to lightweight project management processes, we are able to minimize the impact of these changes to the overall project delivery timeline.