A platform for conducting online testing and certification - Rosalyn & Merixstudio

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So my name is Noorullah Akbari. I am the CEO of Rosalyn.

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Rosalyn is an AI assessment,

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proctoring and certification platform.

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I have had a lot of experience working

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with outsourced

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teams.

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I started with a team in India.

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It was a really bad experience,

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did not produce results that we were

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looking for.

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So we moved on to a team in

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Ukraine.

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They were better,

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but I think

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a lot of the problems that we encountered with them was not

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around how good the developers were,

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but mainly around communication.

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English was a big big hurdle for us.

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I went into your website and and I looked at the

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approach you're taking.

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I found that you're very very startup friendly.

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You focus on product design,

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and you focus on understanding the requirement

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better than

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the other software houses that I have dealt with.

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After going through the the workshop,

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I think this is the only way to to effectively

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work with an outsourced

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product team.

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And frankly, the best way to onboard

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any team member or any engagement.

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In this case, I think we spent the last two days

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diving deep into the business side of the application,

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the vision, how it came about, how it got developed,

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what are we trying to achieve with it.

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And this kind of, I think,

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gave a lot of context to the developers

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and the team.

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So they immediately started thinking about new ideas,

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how to tackle things, and just got them very, very excited.

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And that uncovered

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a lot of insights not only for for you for the team

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that we are gonna work with, but also for us, for ourselves.

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I think we found that there were a few things that we

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didn't think through

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deeply.

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Merixstudio allowed us to hire really high quality developers at

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a cost that we could afford.

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I love the company culture.

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I I love how you treat your developers here,

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and I I think that that

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has a really positive

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effect on the kind of work that they will produce.