Building a business insurance app for an US-based company

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We're an insurance agency.

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We're from, you know, United States and Utah.

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And as an insurance agency,

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we represent a lot of different insurance companies,

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and we also sell insurance products for insurance

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companies, which we sell to our clients,

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our business customers across the country.

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And so the system that we need is a management system to be

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able to handle all of the different projects that we

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have, the different tasks, activities,

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a lot of different workflows and processes that are included

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in the managing of insurance policies for our different customers.

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I've worked with a lot of developers in the past.

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For the past eight or nine years,

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I've been working with an offshore development team over

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in India, and I I grew tires tired of

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the process to develop anything.

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Was

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it was yeah.

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I I there was a lack of input.

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I there was a lot of work on my end to be able to build

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everything out for them, and it it described things very,

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very specifically.

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And so when we searched for a new provider,

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we didn't want to look in India,

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so then we started looking elsewhere.

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We actually ended up looking in America first.

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We tried working with a couple local shops,

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that did not end up working out either,

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so then we started to do a lot more research,

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we found that Europe in general actually had the best

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programmers in the world based on different various reports

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that are out there and so we focused on Europe.

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We were going between Mareks and a company out of Ukraine

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and also a company out of Russia And, ultimately,

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what what happened was we really liked the proven

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processes that Merixstudio had in place.

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We liked the documentation that they had.

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We liked the formal process.

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We really liked the idea of a workshop and being able to have

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these conversations and discuss everything,

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so that's when we ended up working with Merrick's and choosing them.

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And then going through with the workshop,

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I was really we were all very excited about it.

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We liked the idea of doing it in person.

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I felt like they would be, much more

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efficient.

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We could save a lot of time.

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We could be able to expedite the process and and really get

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the project off and and and working very well from the very beginning.

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The workshop has made me it's made me actually understand

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understand my application better than I have in the past

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twelve years from using it, so,

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going being forced to go through and do story mapping

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and doing sketches and discussing the very specific

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workflows is extremely beneficial, it's very

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helpful, so that was a very very big eye opener.

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It's also helped everybody else learn the application a lot

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faster I've seen.

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I've had these conversations with other programming

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companies and they tend to not really catch on to not only our

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application but the insurance industry and I feel like

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everybody here has been,

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they understand not only our application but the industry as

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well which I think is very important.

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Everybody has a unique, look.

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We have front end user interface,

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We have back end graphic design and then project manager.

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So we have one person for every little facet of the the man the

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project, and everybody is giving very, good advice,

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good opinions.

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It's been very, very beneficial.

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I absolutely think it's a good way to start the development process.

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Like I said before,

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we've had other developers that don't do workshops.

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It just takes longer to get get up and going.

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And I think coming here actually was even better.

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I think it's gonna expedite the process.

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I think everybody will save time and money doing this this way.

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So really, if possible, you know, come to Poland.

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Enjoy Poznan.