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About the Client
The client is a global provider of digital literacy and reading solutions for K–12 schools and other educational institutions. Their learning platforms support educators in delivering personalized literacy instruction and tracking student progress through technology-driven tools. As the platform continued to evolve with new features and a growing user base, the client required ongoing engineering support to maintain product stability, resolve technical issues promptly, and enhance overall performance.
Challenges They Faced
As the platform scaled to support thousands of educators and students, maintaining product stability and ensuring rapid issue resolution became increasingly critical.
- Ongoing Product Maintenance and Issue Resolution: The client required continuous support to resolve production issues, address bug reports, and maintain stable platform performance.
- Fast Turnaround for Technical Fixes: Engineering teams needed to diagnose and resolve technical problems quickly to minimize disruptions for educators and students using the platform.
- Maintaining Consistent Product Quality: With frequent product updates and enhancements, maintaining consistent quality and reliability across releases was essential.
- Supporting Continuous Product Improvements: Alongside maintenance activities, the client required engineering support to contribute to ongoing product enhancements and feature updates.
Solutions We Offered
Hurix deployed a focused engineering support team to provide continuous product maintenance, issue resolution, and technical enhancements.
- Dedicated Product Support Team: A team of five engineers was assigned to support ongoing maintenance and development activities for the client’s digital learning platform.
- Frontend Development and Issue Resolution: Leveraged Angular, HTML, and CSS to troubleshoot UI issues, optimize interface behavior, and implement platform improvements.
- Rapid Issue Diagnosis and Fix Implementation: Followed structured workflows to identify production issues quickly, implement fixes, and deploy updates within defined turnaround timelines.
- Quality Control and Release Validation: Ensured all fixes and enhancements passed through defined quality control processes before deployment to maintain platform stability.
- Agile Project Management: Applied SCRUM-based development practices to manage support requests, prioritize fixes, and deliver enhancements in structured development cycles.
Results We Delivered
- Reduced Time-to-Resolution: Achieved a 30% faster turnaround time on critical production bugs through a dedicated agile support squad.
- Boosted Development Velocity: Increased feature deployment frequency by 25% by offloading maintenance tasks from the client’s core engineering team.
- Ensured High Availability: Maintained application stability and performance throughout the engagement, contributing to a 99.9% uptime across supported literacy products.
- Optimized Resource Efficiency: Delivered a 15% reduction in operational overhead by providing a fully-managed SCRUM-led team, eliminating the need for client-side micro-management.
- Zero-Defect Market Releases: Implemented a rigorous Quality Control Process that reduced post-release regression defects by 20%, improving overall software reliability for K-12 educators.
