Category: Interview

We are pleased to have Matthijs Burki, E-commerce Project Manager at Cream to discuss on the right platform for e-commerce development and validate the challenges faced during the implementation of Marketplace development.

During the initial discussion, Matthijs said that Magento is still the best platform to build a shop if you want to build customized solutions that work in sync with your eCommerce business needs owing to the flexibility of the Magento platform. He states there is the risk behind every other platform.

Taking about the Best Software development tool to maintain good relationships with clients, Matthijs said Jira is the best tool for them to manage daily task and be transparent with the customer all the time and client can review the implementation going on and if they want to change anything in between they can request the team to priorities the task based on the need.

Being said that, he said the most important and most difficult challenges are to make customers happy and communicate well during the development phase and stand on the clients’ goals.

We are thankful to him to share insight on the E-commerce project development.

We had Sergei Vardomatski, CEO at HQ Software and we discussed the major challenges on the solving custom software development E-commerce project which also includes the IOT based solution.

Sergei said they work on platform requests by the clients, and majorly focused on Drupal due to its flexibility and can easily handle high traffic and mostly utilized by the enterprise clients. So choosing the right platform depends on the client’s budget and the market.

Moving forward we have discussed the Software development methodology, Sergei’s team majorly works on Scrum and said scrum allows to have regular and continuous improvement and maintain backlog, and give the advantage of rapid and fast delivery. It is easy to identify what is going wrong and which technical feature should be taken care initially and priorities the tasks

While taking about the challenges beside the development phase is to get the right talent and skilled team and hire people and spend much time on Staffing, and second most challenge is the clients has a fixed budget or a time frame so to we need to make sure the right team is working on it to satisfy the client’s needs.

Sergei’s said when we are handling projects in the web world like eCommerce projects it is easier to solve the problem based on the marketplace, but when we handle IoT (Internet of Things) projects, it is related to the Physical world and industry solution and we need to be nearby the location to solve the product related issue.

We are thankful to Sergei to give us the insights on Software projects, IoT projects, software development practices and what not.

It was a great pleasure to have Dan Brag, the Founder at Brag Deal Inc giving us valuable time and insights on the Best Project management Practices on E-commerce projects.

Dan has shared that fulfilling the customer need is the top priority and Brag Deal Inc choose the e-commerce platform based on the business needs and what is suited best for them. He also shared that the deep truth of different platforms for e-commerce like every platform has its own pros and cons, and their team mostly uses the Woo-commerce platform reason being its flexibility, stability, and ease of using its functionality.

While speaking about the Project Management Practices, Dan is more flexible while choosing the best practices and due to the nature of the E-commerce project, the scope keeps changing, so it is hard to stick to a definite Project Management practice like Lean or Agile.

Dan has shared that the most challenging part of an e-commerce project is you start a project in a day and the next day business encounters a new challenge in the market so they need to change a few things in the development and keeping align with those changes to fulfill the customer demands and when the scope is so big it is hard to cover everything, every little detail, so it is our responsibility to communicate well, keep track on the development phase with the Business and get the project reviewed in every development phase.

He shared that before going live, he prefers to make sure that all development has been taken care of seamlessly. Every little thing has been checked during the development phase so it is quite easy for the team to review the whole project and make it live and analyze the site later on once the business is on its goo.

It was quite an interactive conversation with Gabriel Lascano the CTO of Bit Space Development Ltd.

We started the conversation with a few technical issues with Zoom and Google Meet and shared the challenges on both Video Conferencing Tools, though it was not as per the planned conversation, it was quite fun to change the track and talk about something you use on daily basis.

While moving forward with the Best Project Management Practices for E-commerce project, Gabriel said, clients did some research at the initial stage and came to us asking some suggestion on it, and choosing a platform also depends on the customer budget as they don’t need much customization or complex store, Gabriel suggested that the platform we choose must have strong flexibility when we need to add some customization when business grow and keep track on new trends, and 2nd priority while choosing the platform is Integration, having plug-in with different tools.

We moved forward with the next common topic which is getting the right Software Development Methodologies in e-commerce is difficult, but Agile came up with good flexibility where it is easy to make a short-term sprint of 2 weeks as the ultimate goal is to satisfy the client. So sticking to the sort-term development phase is quite needed in e-commerce project development.

Gabriel shared that the major challenges on the e-commerce, scope of the work is never pre-defined so it is always hard to find out what they need because the clients know what they want and don’t know what they need! So we need to know the business vision and predict few things at the beginning and plan according to it.

While talking about the Checklist before going live, they prefer to check all the technical needs, check all the features are in line, transaction link should be working, server sized should be on the predicated order size and server won’t crash in season time.