STX Next Tech Summit 2016 - Nearshoring in Practice

Nearshoring in Practice

Henk van LeussenSTX Next Tech Summit 20.02.2016

talented developers | flexible teams | agile experts

Introduction

Topics

● Introduction● Nearshoring Facilities● Interviews● Ranking by Clutch● Future● Q & A

Nearshoring in PracticeSTX Next Tech Summit 20.02.2016

Introduction

Henk van Leussen,VP of Business Development Benelux & Germany


Nearshoring

Facilities


Our locations

1. Poznań - HQ (03.2005)2. Wrocław (03.2013)3. Piła (12.2013)4. Łódź (01.2015)

Nearshoring

Facilities


Our current clients are located in six countries

16 clients with 20 projects

Nearshoring

Facilities


Industries

Startup & Upscaling Financial Industry Marketing & Advertising Government Global Solutions

Nearshoring

Facilities


Our People - The Capital Money

96 Developers 33 Testers 4 Product Owners 10 Scrum Masters 43 Business Support & Management

We expect to have plus 20 percent employees at the end of this year.

Nearshoring

Facilities

Our used Technologies

Back-endPythonwe’re the biggest - based on Python - software house in Europe

Front-endJavaScript

Mobile

Android and iOS

And yes, we use all kinds of frameworks!


Nearshoring

Facilities


Our Approach

Agile development is the number oneapproach at STX Next. It’s the bestmethodology for delevering anythingfrom a minimal viable product to a full-scaleenterprise system.

We prefer to use Scrum or Kanban.

Interviews

For this topic I interviewed next clients:

- FusePump(Marketing & Advertising)Dwayne Manzano, Product Owner

- Man ALH(Financial Industry)Andrew Burrows, Product Owner

- sereene, formerly Software Diagnostics(Start-up / Upscaling)Felix Salfner, Product Manager


Interviews

Overall I can say that the people I spoke with are very satisfied about:

1. STX Nexta. Good reputationb. Close relationship

2. Our employeesa. Praised about their skillsb. Bright guys, well educated

3. Project managementa. Agile methodologyb. Participation in Daily Stand-ups, Sprints and

visits to one of our offices


Clutch 2015

Web and Software Development

STX Next was the highest ranked company in the:

Top Python & Django Developers Leaders Matrix

https://clutch.co/developers/python-django/research




Future

Nearshoring and outsourcing will become more and more important, because the shortage of good developers is increasing, especially in Western Europe and US.

Therefore, STX Next will focus on healthy, organic growth and will invest in good personnel to be prepared for the future!


Thank you! Any questions?

Henk van Leussen

[email protected]/henkvanleussen

Presentations & Public Speaking

STX Next Tech Summit 2016 - Nearshoring in Practice