Is your project a dumpster fire? Do you change developers more often than your bedsheets? Does your project burn money faster than a gambling addict in Las Vegas?

We may have the solution for you!

We specialize in salvaging off-track projects and restoring harmony within your company.

Wonderful! How do you do it?

We send you a highly expert software developer to analyze your project and join your team. He will study the project and find what is going wrong, what the structural deficiencies of the current solutions are, and then provide a plan to fix it. He will then dive in an solo programming session for a couple of months and come out with the most elegant, performant and best-practice solution you ever dreamed about. Then, this knowledge will be fully transferred to your team members so they can move to the next project.

And all this for a fixed price.

Why a solo programmer? Where is the team work?

In critical situations, a solo programmer approach offers significant advantages:

  1. He will work fast, does not need endless meetings to keep in sync, and there are no internal conflicts.
  2. A single higly experienced programmer is cheaper than a team of 5 junior devs, and produce way more.
  3. A solo programmer can work in parallel while your current team will continue to keep the boat afloat.
  4. For a single person, it is easier to take some design choice and stick to it... and it is easier to change their mind when the initial assumptions result to be wrong
  5. There is full ownership of the solution and he will not focused only on closing the JIRA ticket and collect the story-points.

To be clear: to have a single developer to handle an entire software project is not a wise choice, in normal circumstances. But if you are here, it means that they are not in normal circumstances. For this reason, we handle the KT very seriously for the rest of the team when the results are ready.

How do you work?

We split our work into these phases:

  1. Blend in: a developer will join the existing team to understand the project and catch what is not currently working. He will work on performing normal tasks and try, at the same time, to analyze the project. This phase can take between a couple of weeks up to several months, depending on the complexity of the project. After this step is completed, both the management and the developer will make a GO/NO-GO decision. In case of a GO decision, a detailed plan with the milestone will be prepared for management approval. This part will have no cost for you.
  2. Milestones: each milestone define a deliverable which contains a working solution and the associated code documentation and testing.
  3. Transfer: here the project will be transfered back to the original team. This phase is critical because this step will prove how good our design is and how the documentation is well done. Making ourselves unnecessary is the best proof we did a good job.

How can I be sure that we will not get another dumpster fire?

As expert developers, we will provide quality-driven products. For each milestone, will be specified what will be delivered, and we will specifically focus on:

  1. Extensive code documentation (pydoc, doxygen, etc.)
  2. Unit testing
  3. Automated testing
  4. Uses of best-practices
  5. Good error handling

Which languages/technologies can you work with?

Currently, we are able to provide services in these technologies:

Why this name?

Because we think that a lot of IT stuff is getting done wrong, it is way too easy to waste tons of money on scopeless projects, making the developers' lives miserable, destroying managers' careers and, sometimes, sinking the whole company. Too often, companies go into the sunk-cost fallacy and continue to waste their money on projects without any prospect of success. We aim to provide a painless way out from this situation, a gasp of fresh air for software developers, managers and companies. We hope that our name will be effective in delivering this message.

OK, you convinced me: how can I contact you?

You can contact us at this email address.