Software development executed with

transparency and simplicity. Trust is the building block of successful engagements

We are a software development agency who holds ourselves to the highest standards.

• Our team is comprised of engineers and project managers with extensive commercial experience building world-class web and mobile applications
• Our project management system allows 100% transparency into our work and ease of communication throughout the life of your project on our EMS (Engagement Management System)
• Our aim is to integrate clients, developers, and assets into a unified engagement ecosystem, which will make development truly efficient, transparent, and reliable
• Candidates have to pass tests relevant to their roles

• Our team members do cross-training across technologies and projects for continuity
• We only hire engineers with professional work experience
• Candidates are interviewed by a panel and interviewers make independent judgments
• We hire to have some excess capacity so that we hire for quality, not urgency
• We share the resumes of assigned team members
• Our training programs for new technology are centered around internal projects with visibility to code for all employees
• We provide stats about number of job applicants, interviews, and hires
• An easy communication channel is always available via Basecamp for staying in touch with engineers, testers and project managers
• We provide references to previous clients
• We expose code written by our team members for sample projects
• Client can ask hiring manager why they hired a team member, and perhaps hiring manager provides 1-pager of why we hired the person
• We provide alternatives to implementing custom components, by leveraging our knowledge of existing solutions and services available; act as advisors
• Process: technical vetting after scope doc, to confirm requirements are feasible and fit in budget
• We list features included and features excluded, for clarity, and provide alternatives so that the client can be informed and prioritize to maximize their investment; partnering about prioritization
• Share technical assessment doc with client
• We deliver project functional specifications to the client and have a review and approval process before development begins
• Provide an option to bring 3rd party pm/scoper to review and assess scope doc feasibility (contractors, network, or client can provide)
• A QA process ensures code is considered “done” only after passing peer code review, and independent verification test by QC
• Each developers’ work is put into private ledger and their reputation is visible to management and their peers
• Client access to dashboard showing hours spent by each person per day, on each task (via jiraqueries)
• Publishing test cases and test pass results
• Publishing code review results
• Weekly one-on-one meetings between tech leads and engineers and testers, to review challenges and areas for improvement, and results shared with client
• Option to bring in third party to do code inspection report (contractor, advisors, client provided)
• Devblock’s Program Manager is your primary contact and available to represent the development team as needed with third parties, product management discussion, …
• PGM results and outcome go up on private ledger for reputation
• Daily status reports from dev team members to their PM are visible to the client
• Daily status reports from project manager to client, highlighting any critical items, and progress against project target
• Day-of escalation of issues that may impact project schedule or budget if discovered