Life180 has created a science-based, healthy lifestyle program that helps various age groups achieve their health related goals. The product includes subscription and community features. Life180 has a strong product management and design team, but required an equally strong technology partner.

Challenge

Fitsmi required technology evaluation, a very custom designed suite of features and a full-service team of software developers with diverse skill set, QA testers and an Onshore CTO to lead the effort. The unique requirements of this project include – ground up development with complete start up approach, highly iterative process and entrepreneur thinking.

The Solution

Smartsourcing Global provided an end-to-end technology team based on an onshore-offshore model. Our onshore CTO leads technology architecture and solutions combining project management support and an offshore development group in rapidly developing Life180's product with state of the art technology.

Smartsourcing Global's services to Life180 include hiring and training resources, translating their business requirements into technical specifications, recommending technologies and tools, building a robust and scalable platform, providing software development, QA testing and project management support.

Within tight budget and time constraints, our team has been rapidly delivering the modules of fitsmi.com. A lot of custom development to support unique and right features of the application. We have used all open source technologies and tools and a very lean team saving life180 large amount. Due to support of our WATER process, there is negligible management cost to Life180.

Our team analyzed the requirements and added value every step of the way by refining requirements and choosing the right technical solutions to meet both short term and long term goals. Our agile team could adapt to the changing requirements and expectations as needed. Smartsourcing Global provided end-to-end technical support, beginning with decisions on technology and tools, software architecture, engaging the right resources on the project as well as project management, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance. The project was developed on 'Ruby on Rails' platform. Smartsourcing Global maintains accountability for the technology decisions, architecture and all phases of software development and QA testing of the product. WordPress platform was extended to service custom requirements of article sections of the website.

Results

Smartsourcing Global's strengths made it a perfect match to provide Life180 with cost effective rapid development:

This application is a great example of rich web 2.0 social communities with very custom software development with high performance and sophisticated content management system. The application phases have been delivered on-time, within budget, with rich UI features, and a robust platform. We continue to build features for the product and recently fitsmi went live.