Building things the right way is cheaper, easier, and more reliable
Supported Delivery Models
Software
we write the software and deliver that to your FTEs
Deployments as Code
we write the software and the code that deploys it on your servers
Software as a Service
we write the code and maintain the deployment with our secure, HIPPA certified cloud vendors
Supported Delivery Models
Engineering as a Service (EaaS) offers a multitude of benifits that out-compete the conventional approach to building digital products. First it allows you to start work on a project exactly when you need it, avoiding the often inefficient hiring process.
Further, EaaS relieves in-house management from the burden of managing remote engineering which is comparatively more daunting, error-prone if not handled delecately and requires a unique skills that aren't ordinarily developed through conventional face-to-face management.
Partnering with a specialized provider alleviates the complexities of remote team management and allows your team to focus on their core strengths.
Cooperly's EaaS brings flexibility, whether scaling resources up or down, and offers industry-specific expertise, ensuring projects are handled by remote-savvy experts with proven results. This means less time spent on recruitment and onboarding, lower costs, and ultimately, higher-quality outputs that enable your team to concentrate on driving value.
How it Starts
It all starts with a simple framing meeting including your desired point(s) of contact: architect, project stakeholders, product owners. We use this meeting to gather an understanding of what work needs to be done, and what the requirements are for Cooperly's deliverables to integrate perfectly with your existing or planned environment. The first meeting is free and requires no commitment on your end. If it is determined that Cooperly is a good fit for your project, then we'll know it at this point and we'll ask that we sign off on a contract.
Assuming we're lights green, we will have generated a whiteboard diagram and notes from this initial meeting. These assets will be polished into a useful depiction of the boundry between the code we write for you and how we integrate it into your in-house systems.
What if One Framing Meeting Isn't Enough?
At Cooperly, we make our best effort to minimize meetings because at the end of the day, they represent time spent not making full use of our engineering services.
But making sure we're building the right thing is important. If it is determined that subsequent meetings are required to formalize the project's requirements, then our Advisory Retainer rates will be applied as we work with you, facilitating further meetings until we're ready to get the show on the road. Meetings in addition to the initial framing meeting are charged on an hourly basis, rounding up to the nearest hour until you're ready to begin your first one month commitment.
The Development Cycle
When we reach this point, the engineering manager assigned to your account will have enough information to coordinate the development of our deliverable to you. The software will be developed on an iterative basis and on a regular cadence the software will be pushed to your code repository. This gives you a transparent look into how your software is progressing.
How Exactly is the Code Delivered?
If you're under a locked-down network, don't fret -this is a common scenario. For the most part you won't need to worry about this, we handle it.
In most cases, your organization will issue a single laptop to our technical engineering manager. Said manager's engineers will write maintainable code following modern engineering standards that will be committed first to our private systems. On a regular basis, the engineering manager will use the laptop issues to him to retrieve this code from our systems, and then push it to your systems. At a minimum, the engineering manager's laptop only requires the ability to access your code repository systems and recieve emails from our internal email server (*@cooperly.net).
What About Internal Deployments?
If releases or deployments are scoped into the contract, we have multiple workflows that allow our engineering manager to implement the pipeline code that will automate the entire release cycle. Our engineering manager does NOT need to be granted release privileges if it is preferable to have an full-time employee conduct releases. All back-and-forth work related to integrating with one of your FTEs will be tracked and follow our Advisory Retainer rates.
Demos Track
Following our framing meeting, one of the documents we send your way will be our Demo Track. You can think of this as a program you might be handed while attending a theater. The Demo Track makes a best effort to predict the demo-able milestones involved in your product.
We like to get a very simple milestone out of the way early on to help build trust. Ordinarily the first week involves mostly laying out the skeletal form of the software, and in some cases, integration efforts related to deployments.
Subsequent demos will be planned based on actual completion of milestones. These meetings are helpful to make sure the product will intigrate well with your systems and meet your business needs.