How Scrums.com Works

Understanding Scrums.com

At Scrums.com, we understand that scaling your technology initiatives requires more than just talent – it demands the right teams, the right processes, and the right technology. We offer a range of services designed to meet your specific needs, whether you require rapid project delivery, ongoing support, or a dedicated team working seamlessly within your organization.

1. Understanding Your Needs:

Every project begins with understanding your unique requirements. We'll work with you to define your goals, technical challenges, and desired outcomes. This initial phase might involve:

• Discovery Workshops (ODS): For projects requiring a focused deep dive to define scope, requirements, and potential solutions. These are particularly useful for validating ideas and de-risking major investments.
• Consultations: To discuss your broader needs and determine the best service model (On-Demand, Managed Services, Dedicated Team, or PDaaS) for your specific situation.

2. Choosing the Right Solution:

• Scrums.com On-Demand Solutions (ODS): Need a quick boost? ODS provides access to specialized expertise for short-term projects (1-8 weeks). Think of it as a rapid response team for tasks like UX audits, prototyping, or code reviews. Good for: Testing new technologies, validating concepts or business ideas and addressing specific roadblocks.
• Scrums.com Managed Services: Looking for ongoing support? Our Managed Services integrate seamlessly with your existing Scrums.com Dedicated or PDaaS teams, taking over tasks like Quality Assurance, maintenance, and support, allowing your core team to focus on what they do best. Good for: Offloading non-core tasks, ensuring ongoing maintenance, and maintaining consistent quality.
• Scrums.com Dedicated: Want a team integrated into your business? Our Dedicated Teams provide specialized, scalable teams tailored to your tech stack and project needs. You manage the team directly, giving you full control over their direction and priorities. Good for: Long-term projects, complex development, and organizations that prefer direct team management.
• Scrums.com Product Development as a Service (PDaaS): Need to launch fast? PDaaS is our flagship service designed for rapid product development. By leveraging AI, automation, and a standardized technology stack, we can drastically reduce your time to market. Good for: Funded Startups, rapid prototyping, and projects where speed is paramount. get your product to market fast and use real time User analytics to determine your platforms next move.
• Scrums.com Augmented: Scrums.com Talent Solutions provides rapid access to a pre-vetted network of 10,000+ tech professionals, enabling companies to quickly scale their teams, build offshore development centers, and integrate specialized talent across the entire SDLC. With flexible deployment options, comprehensive management, and cost-effective pricing, Scrums.com streamlines talent acquisition, enhances retention, and empowers businesses to achieve their development goals efficiently.

3. The Scrums.com Difference:

• Team Science: We don't just provide individuals; we build high-performing teams. Our rigorous process for team formation considers not only technical skills but also team dynamics and cultural fit.
• AI-Powered Development: AI is woven into every stage of our process, from talent matching to code generation and project management. This allows us to work faster, smarter, and deliver better results to help improve your Business' ROI.
• PDaaS Speed: Our PDaaS offering is designed for speed. We aim to get a working version of your product into your hands as quickly as possible, often within the first two sprints. This allows for early user feedback and iterative development.
• Flexible Scaling: Whether you need a small team for a short project or a large team for a long-term engagement, we can scale our services to meet your evolving needs. We also offer smooth transitions between service models (e.g., from PDaaS to a Dedicated Team) as your project matures.

4. Our Technology:

We are tech agnostic but have specific products within each tech stack to maximize your ROI and ensure the right Team from Scrums.com is built to drive results within your business.

Scrums.com PDaaS: Scrums.com has selected and leverages a modern and robust technology stack, including JavaScript, Next.js, ReactJS, and NodeJS, to ensure your product is built on a solid foundation, is scalable and future proof. Our cloud-based development environment in Partnership with AWS is automated processes to further accelerate development and deployment. A stack and working model we have developed over 13 years.

Scrums.com Dedicated: Our Dedicated teams are built to seamlessly integrate with your existing development teams. We focus on technologies such as Java, C#, .NET, PHP and GOlang.

Scrums.com Augmentation: Our Augmentation service is built to ensure you can find the best Talent at the best rates. You can utilize our platform to select, interview and kickoff with your required talent all within 21 days. Whether you are looking for a niche skillset or simply looking to scale an offshore development centre, this is the solution for you. We offer the full range of technologies and proficiency skillsets.

5. Continuous Improvement:

We are committed to continuous improvement. We regularly update our platform, refine our processes, and explore new technologies to ensure we are always providing the best possible service to our clients. We encourage feedback from our clients and our teams to help us achieve this goal.

Have questions? Contact us today to discuss your project and how Scrums.com can help you achieve your technology goals.

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General Questions

Who is Scrums.com?

Scrums.com provides high quality engineering teams to scaling enterprises at lower costs. Scrums.com designs, builds, deploys and maintains custom software that gives scale-ups the opportunity to grow world-class businesses.

Why choose Scrums.com?

1. Extensive global talent with vetted experts.
2. Highly flexible; can scale teams up or down based on project needs.
3. Transparent pricing with high value due to quality and reliability.
4. Easily scalable with access to additional resources as needed.
5. Developers ready in as little as 21 days.
6. Continuous innovation with access to the latest technologies.

Why are you so much more cost-effective?

We have direct access to top talent in lower-cost, global jurisdictions. Through these emerging markets we are able to beat your down the road supplier on price. Whilst competing on price, our quality promises a consistency of delivery.

Where are you based?

We are a global business with our US office based at 15 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018, USA.

What about the time zone difference?

All our development teams will overlap with your timezone by a minimum of 4 hours a day.

Where do your developers sit?

Our African based talent pool is dispersed across the continent in one of our delivery centers. Remote delivery provides a competitive advantage to ensure the best talent working for you at the best price.

What times can I get in touch with the team?

Anytime - Book a Meeting HERE.

Is all of my code custom and belongs to me? How does the IP work?

All code and surrounding IP generated through your team belongs to your company.

What is your software development methodology?

Agile Scrum is our preferred methodology when we are taking charge of delivery. We are also always available to work according to your methodology needs.

Who have you worked with in the past?

We have worked with numerous international companies in multiple industries around the globe, including: Naspers, Nivea, Huawei, Deloitte, BDO, PPRO and many more.

Are your development teams impacted by the power outages?

No, our delivery centers are equipped with failover power supplies should the need arise.

How does Scrums.com ensure ownership and accountability?

Full team accountability is crucial to the success of any team. It's important that the team is structured as an extension of our clients' businesses. This is achieved through ownership of delivery, deadlines and overall quality. Through the pre-kick off engagement we strive to comprehensively understand how to own your business’s KPI’s, key metrics, product North Star, stakeholder matrix and end user requirements to allow best product and technical decisions to be taken.

How do you put my team together?

We work with you to assemble your ideal team to meet your requirements across culture and tech.

How do I know my developers are capable of executing on my project?

Our stringent vetting processes (technical, psychometric and cultural) ensure that only the best-in-class individuals are hired into our ecosystem.

Do you only do scrum?

Agile Scrum is our preferred methodology when we are taking charge of delivery. We are also always available to work according to your methodology needs.

What tooling is included with my subscription?

• Get access to our Client Platform to view real time sprint reports.
• Time tracking tools
• Project management tools
• Communication tools and more

I need a developer tomorrow. Can you supply one?

One Developer sure, but our commitment is to Kick-off with your team in 21 days.

Does Scrums.com work on the weekend or after working hours? (What hours and time zones does Scrums.com work?)

Scrums.com staff members will work the usual work hours, 08:30am - 17:30pm on weekdays. If after hours work is needed, we offer an out of hours ad hoc charge or can be included dependant on your project needs.

There will be a minimum overlap of 4 hours with the EDT time zone.

When were we established?

2012.

Can I hire one of my Scrums.com team members permanently?

Yes, this is specific to our Enterprise clients who have access to benefits such as these.

Can I configure a custom plan?

Yes of course. However we currently allow Clients who have bigger requirements than our Enterprise plans to have full flexibility over the number of developers, engineering seniority, dedicated Project and Scrum masters, custom UI/UX design needs, QA processes and their internal DevOps requirements. Book a demo with us to find out more.

Can I have my Scrums.com team on site?

While we focus on providing remote teams in order to ensure you have access to the right talent at the right cost, we do have options for onsite teams. Book a meeting and we can take you through the detail.

Can I meet the potential developers prior to signing?

We make specialist recommendations on how to structure individual teams. Of course different individuals can be brought into your team at varying intervals to meet your project requirements.

Can I come and see you?

We have offices around the Globe in South Africa, Kenya, the USA and the UK. Lets find some time to meet in person.

What is the minimum plan commitment?

We offer a Fixed and Flexible based contracts depending on your needs.

Why Scrums.com (Where did the name come from?)

It’s just a name ;) But it really speaks to our preferred project management methodology - Scrum.

Do you have physical offices?

Yes, we have offices around the globe to help us better serve our client. Head over to the contact us page to see where were based.

Can you come and see me?

Absolutely, whilst the world has been brought closer together through digital tooling, we value building face-to-face relationships.

Your site says book a meeting, can I have a demo of a previous project?

Absolutely! As a prerequisite we will need to get an NDA in place to protect all parties involved.

How do I know which plan is right for me?

We can help guide you! Just book a demo with us and we'll figure it out based on your team's needs as well as your software development needs. Let's find the best option, together.

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‍Subscription Model

How does your subscription structure work?

Our Scrums.com subscription model allows our clients to decide on their subscription package as their business evolves both from a scale up and scale down perspective. Essentially the model provides our clients with the ability to infinitely scale their engineering capacity in a timely manner.

How does your team model work?

Our typical teams consist of: project leads, developers, delivery managers, designers, products strategists, QA testers and business analysts.

Do I have to manage the team?

We have different products that offer the flexibility you need when dealing with Software teams. Either you can opt to manage their day to day delivery or we can provide a dedicated delivery/project manager who will be responsible for the management and performance of your team.

What if I want to modify the size of my team?

The flexibility of our subscriptions allows you to scale up or scale down your team size. This allows you the flexibility to manage output and costs that align with your business needs.

If I have to hire a whole team, I might as well just do it myself. What makes Scrums.com the better option?

Scrums.com can provide you with a perfectly suited team faster and more efficiently than hiring a development team in house. Scrums.com also manages all vetting, recruitment fees and management of your team. With our subscription model, we become a bolt on of your business without the need for permanent staff, allowing you to avoid all the admin, costs and time involved in putting together, onboarding, training, up-skilling and motivating your team.

Can I use hours for upcoming months for use in this month if I have a tight deadline?

Fortunately with our flexible subscription model, you won’t have to. All you need to do is notify us and we can increase your monthly development hours to make sure you hit your tight deadline.

How flexible are the Scrums.com subscriptions?

All we need is 1-month notice period when changing between tiers. Let's plan according to your business needs.

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Payments

How do payments work?

You can opt for monthly, quarterly or annual payment plans that suit your business.

When do I pay my subscription?

Annual plan subscriptions pricing is invoiced in advance for preferential pricing. Quarterly and Monthly Subscriptions will be invoiced on the 1st of each month. Subscriptions are payable within 20 days.

Why are you so much more cost-effective?

We have direct access to top talent on the fastest growing continent globally, Africa. Through lower African costs we are able to beat your down the road supplier on price. Whilst competing on price, our quality promises a consistency of delivery.

Can I get a discount if I take multiple teams?

Yes, we are built to help you scale and therefore as you scale you continue to get discounts.