Canadian Forage and Grassland Association
Fractional CTO and Project Management Support to hit pivotal deadlines
Overview
Agriculture
Alberta
Technology
- Fractional CTO
- MySQL
- PHP
- Project Management
- Remote Team Management
Project
CFGA is the national voice for all sectors of the forage and grassland industry, formed in 2010 to provide a national voice for all Canadians who produce hay and forage products, and for those whose production is dependent upon forage and grassland production.
CFGA has multiple interactive websites nationwide, in all provinces with a forage and agriculture industry. All of them were being updated at once, by a third party developer whose ownership had changed hands – and the timelines were in jeopardy, and the clients at CFGA felt out of control of their own software and business tools.
Vertical Motion entered the picture with a detailed application health assessment, reporting in plainspoken language and substantiated facts to CFGA that their projects were at risk of failure. To resolve the breakdown of progress, CFGA initiated a fractional CTO relationship and Vertical Motion began to project manage the nine critical deadlines leading into spring.
Solution
Vertical Motion immediately initiated hands-on project management principles, including regular status meetings, a (previously absent) full software status and ticketing system, an analysis of current progress and requirements, and initiation of Q&A and software testing routines.
Remote team management is a specific skillset in extensive use for these multiple project sites. To support forward momentum and reduce regression errors, testing automation was built in to the process, to catch mistakes if they slipped back in to the critical path.
Beyond project management, back-end software support in deploying new systems and centralizing infrastructure was performed, assisting the third-party developers over the finish line, while simultaneously securing the intellectual property for CFGA.