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About Us

Established in 2004, Velocity Partners strategically aligns with companies to develop software better, faster - and more cost effectively. We truly partner with our clients to deliver the market's highest-quality results with the lowest total cost of engagement through our nearshore services in South America and our U.S.-based implementation consultants. Full believers in the power of distributed teams we also offer Agile distributed team consulting to customers, giving them the tools necessary to realize tremendous value through realistic solutions within their own organizations. We are technology and consultancy experts in the areas of software development, digital media, mobile applications and software-as-a-service (SAAS) solutions.

Velocity Partners' innovative nearshore software development service delivers unrivaled value to customers through Lean principles and Agile practices. Our four Agile delivery centers are located in South America - Argentina and Uruguay - allowing for similar cultures and close proximity to the United States. Coupling our specialized nearshore teams with our U.S.-based implementation consultants creates cohesive, highly-productive and cost-effective teams.

Today Velocity is proud to maintain relationships with many of the country's most respected names in business including Microsoft, Disney, Sprint and Expedia. We are committed to an ongoing collaboration with our customers that drives value, results and a positive return - and we have the success stories to prove it.
Methods

We practice practicality

Velocity Partners takes a pragmatic approach towards project and service delivery. Our customers employ a variety of project management practices; however, they all believe in a core principle based in Lean - the principle of flow. Whether a company operates within a Scrum paradigm or a more Lean-based Flow (Kanban) model, Velocity has the experience and expertise to deliver successful outcomes. Because of our practical experience, we also support our customers by coaching their internal staff on how to best utilize distributed teams or how to adopt and adapt Lean principles and Agile practices.

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Join the ranks of the "best of the best"

At Velocity Partners, we are committed to hiring the best software developers, project managers and Scrum masters. We provide ongoing, cutting-edge training and career development around technical practices and using Agile/Scrum software development processes. We strive to provide challenging and interesting projects for each employee, as well as a comprehensive benefits package. If you are interested in finding out more about the opportunities we have available submit your resume today!
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Training

At Velocity Partners we invest in the success of our team and customers. We do this by creating and delivering our own Lean-Agile training program for our team members based on real experiences. Every team member at Velocity Partners has a customized training plan as part of the onboarding process. It begins with a Lean-Agile “quick start” to provide a baseline for Lean thinking applied to Agile delivery practices. This is followed by internal teaching and coaching of good practices such as TDD, Design Patterns, Automated builds and testing as well as deeper understanding and pragmatic coaching on Lean-Agile project execution. Because we are able to practice Agility across multiple business verticals and technologies, the team at Velocity Partners is able to use this experience to better the knowledge and project execution across all our teams.

We make this investment of our team members not only for their advancement but also because we recognize that this helps our customers to ensure we deliver a consistent high quality experience for every customer, every time.

Why work with Velocity

We understand that our employees are the key to our success and it's important to meet their personal and professional needs. We strive to meet this objective by providing exciting projects, countless opportunities for free training & development, and a comprehensive benefits plan some of which includes fully-paid medical insurance for the entire family, gym allowance, book allowance and child care assistance.

Our core values are reflected in every program we put together and provides a blueprint to ensure that Velocity Partners is meeting the needs to our employees, as well as our customers. We are not just your average consulting firm. We make an impact.

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Our agile development centers deliver value.

Velocity Partners chose South America for its advanced technology centers, focus on technology education, cost-effective opportunities and close proximity to our U.S.-based customers.

Rosario, Argentina

The city of Rosario holds our newest technology center that delivers all aspects of core application development within the Java and .NET platforms. This center provides such solutions as web services, front-end development and database development. Rosario is just up river from Buenos Aires and is considered one of the main cities of Argentina with more than 1 million people calling it home.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires is the largest city in Argentina and our center there provides core application development along the Java and .NET platforms like our Rosario center. Buenos Aires is a vibrant world class city similar to what one may find in New York.

Paraná, Argentina

Located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, Paraná is the capital city of the Argentine province of Entre R&icuteos. Meaning "Padre de las Aguas" (Father of Water) - it is no surprise that Paraná is a haven for outdoor enthusiasts looking to enjoy sports such as windsurfing, water skiing, wake boarding, swimming and fishing. The city offers an ideal combination of beautiful landscapes, rich history, a thriving culture and business sophistication. Velocity Partners opened its Paraná delivery center in 2011.

Montevideo, Uruguay

Montevideo is the largest city in Uruguay with over 1.8 million people and a three hour ferry ride across the wide Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires. Our center provides a core of Open Source software development that includes design, web services, mobile device development and core development.
Services
NearShore Services

Today, more than ever, the need for obtaining high-quality results at a low cost is top of mind for engineers and executives seeking a service that best fits their company's software development needs and standards. With our four nearshore specialty Agile delivery centers in South America, Velocity Partners delivers the world's best valued, quality services for the lowest total cost of engagement. Areas of specialty among our development centers are core back-end development, core user experience, Web development and quality assurance services.

Nearshore operations in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Mendoza, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay give us the ability to have cohesive teams that share a similar culture and close proximity with our U.S. based team and customers. In addition, Argentina boasts some of the world's most skilled technologists making for a thriving talent pool. Our teams overlap business days somewhere between four and eight hours depending on local time zones and English is a common language for both verbal and written communications. Our U.S. based delivery managers provide local part time support for our customers to facilitate the successful startup of the engagement - reducing full time offshore PM costs seen in other models. We fully employ Lean principles and Agile practices in our nearshore operations, having just the right amount of processes in place to fulfill customer needs and expectations while not becoming burdensome.

Velocity's dedicated project services group supports all new startup relationships, ensuring engagements with us are both seamless and cost effective. Support staff is also in place for real-time collaboration when transitioning from an outsourced operation to our nearshore services.

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Agile Distributed Team Consulting

Velocity Partners has years of hands-on practical experience delivering successful business outcomes using our nearshore distributed team services with U.S. customers and Argentina development centers.

Our success with this service comes from ensuring we have experienced local delivery managers paired with talented South American based software engineers. By harnessing the knowledge and expertise we've garnered through our nearshore structure and sharing it with customers through our Agile Distributed Team Consulting service we are putting the power of distributed teams into their hands. Driving change throughout an organization can be challenging but with Velocity's expert coaching, companies recognize faster and greater value with fewer costs. Consulting engagements range from small Agile coaching sessions to teaching distributed team best practices to Lean/Agile organizational change consulting. Regardless of the type of coaching, customers can be sure that our passionate and skilled consultants are drawing from their own arsenals of successful, real-world experiences gained through Velocity's own distributed team model.
Velocity Partners Benefits
- Velocity Partners Benefits
- A global Agile workforce that's highly skilled, trained and experienced
- Nearshore centers that overlap time zones with U.S. customers
- A “virtual team room” effect using the latest video, audio and web technologies
- A lower total cost of engagement
- Code releases on a frequent, repeatable basis
- Daily stand-ups beteween US and nearshore team members (“This is what I did yesterday, this is what am I doing today, these are my impediments”)
- Best telecommunication/web infrastructure in South America
- Loyal employees with minimal turnover
- Strong emphasis around intellectual property protection embedded in the culture
- Excellent verbal and written English skills
Clients
Partners

Custom Development Solutions / Business Intelligence / Data Managment Solutions
Cohesive

Cohesive teams with similar cultures and work approach sets up long-term relantionship between major communication provider and Velocity Partners

Challenge - The country's largest provider of cable services and one of the world's leading communications companies was looking for a way to deliver services to the business in a more cost-effective and timely manner.

Recognizing the challenge of managing a larger portfolio of work than could be completed with its own resources, the company wanted to collaborate with a distributed team that closely aligned with its culture and Agile-based project execution model.

Action - Velocity Partners was recommended to the organization and after a strategic consultation, it was determined that the client would be best served by collaborating with two of Velocity's nearshore distributed teams based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Velocity kicked off the engagement by initiating its Sprint Zero model to confirm goals and set up the necessary infrastructure. To ensure team cohesion, Velocity's U.S.-based implementation manager visited the client's headquarters in Philadelphia where he collaborated with the lead developer and product champion before ultimately engaging the rest of the team in Argentina.

Throughout the engagement Velocity provided as-needed onsite visits to the client; coached the entire team to plan and estimate the work; conducted daily short calls via Skype to ensure open communication; held bi-weekly acceptance of deliverables meetings via Adobe Connect video collaboration; and developed process checkpoints with the client to ensure perfect final delivery.

Results - After the seamless delivery of software from the initial engagement, the client and Velocity strengthened their relationship and today continue to work in close collaboration with two of Velocity's distributed nearshore teams. Each of the teams shares the same lead and works in concert with one another to ensure that they think and act as one - a structure that the client has both embraced and utilized to its advantage.
Case Study

Improving system performance rate by 10,000 percent

Challenge

The client's licensing program offers volume licensing for small, mid-size and enterprise businesses that wish to purchase and manage licenses for the company's software products. After experiencing unacceptable system performance and encountering numerous software bugs with an outsourced solution in India, the company returned system development and maintenance to headquarters. The company needed a consistent resource for high-quality software developers in the local market.

Action

The client team found an answer to this resource shortage in Velocity Partners. They implemented an Agile execution model with frequent checkpoints to address the system's performance and software defect issues. Velocity Partners responded by producing batches of software code in fast and focused iterative cycles, which resulted in multiple releases to production each month.

The collaborative and transparent development process was a success with the client relying on Velocity Partners to ensure that the required feature sets were completed with each cycle. Velocity Partners recognized the need for standardization in the software development process and created an automation tool that not only saved significant deployment time within for operations but was also reused by other teams.

Results

Before Velocity Partners, system processed 100 license statements per day; today that number has skyrocketed to approximately 100,000. A sustained increase of this magnitude resulted in substantial revenue for the client, generating more than $20 million in costs savings and enabling over $850 million in yearly revenue.
Partnership

Long-term partnership strengthens ongoing project implementation

Onsite and nearshore Agile-trained resources provide professional services

Challenge

A subsidiary of Comcast, the client specializes in digital media publishing, advertising and syndication over wireless and broadband networks. The company was looking for a partner who could work as an extension of its team using an Agile project execution methodology. It also wanted to use a distributed team that shared a relatively close geographic proximity, allowing for more efficient project delivery.

Action

Upon finding Velocity Partners, the client recognized the close synergies between the two companies. The Velocity Partners' approach dovetailed with the client's own internal software development methods, enabling the two companies to work in close cooperation to speed the product launch for clients.

To start, Velocity Partners provided an onsite development team for technical consulting using iterative software development cycles.

The client was impressed with the high-caliber of resources employed by Velocity Partners and decided to explore working with the nearshore team in Buenos Aires - a cost-effective option for implementation support solutions.

With only a four-hour time difference, the client was able to actively discuss implementation projects with Velocity Partners' team members in Argentina during regular business hours. This direct interaction eliminated handoffs, making it possible for the project to function as a real-time engagement.

Results

For more than three years, the client has engaged Velocity Partners as an extension of its team.

Currently, a team of 14 from Velocity Partners -seven in Seattle and seven in Argentina - work side by side with the company's staff on various implementation projects. The business relationship has proved to be both productive and cost-effective.
NearShore

Augmenting core development team with nearshore resources

Distributed team supplies high-quality software code at cost-effective price

Challenge

The mission of Vulcan, Inc., the entrepreneurial company owned by Paul Allen with headquarters in Seattle, is to create and advance a variety of world-class endeavors and high impact initiatives that change and improve the way people live, learn, do business and experience the world.1 Vulcan includes companies in a variety of industries, such as telecommunications, real estate, sports, technology, and supplies software development services for mission-critical projects at Microsoft. Like many companies, Vulcan was challenged to attract and retain a consistent supply of high caliber software developers in the local market.

Action

Vulcan asked Velocity Partners to augment staffing on a project to develop additional features and functionality for Microsoft® Windows® Vista.

A team of eight senior developers from Vulcan and Velocity Partners - four onsite and four in Buenos Aires - worked side by side with a Vulcan Scrum master who fulfilled the role of project manager. Given the Agile emphasis on short, iterative development cycles, Velocity Partners and Vulcan coordinated a daily standup meeting to discuss software development progress, plans and obstacles in order to fulfill product requirements. This approach, including the ability to make mid-course corrections through the process, led to a more focused product development life cycle. Velocity Partners staff became fully integrated with the Vulcan staff to form a cohesive project team focused on product delivery. The ability to utilize collaboration tools such as a project wiki and voice/video calling enabled the distributed team members to have full visibility with the problem domain and work collectively toward providing the optimal solution.

Results

By collaborating with Velocity Partners, Vulcan progressed on creating extended functionality to Windows Vista for a future commercial launch. Throughout the process, Vulcan saw first-hand Velocity Partners' ability to provide high quality, flexible software code for a complex and cutting edge technical project. The productivity of the Velocity Partners team was consistently high, while the rates of the nearshore development team allowed a 42 percent savings over what Vulcan would have had to pay local software developers.
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Press Release

VELOCITY PARTNERS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH VERSIONONE

Mar, 19 2012

Leaders in Agile software development align for continued growth

BELLEVUE, Wash. (March 15, 2012) – Velocity Partners, an innovative, nearshore software development company that delivers efficiency and value through distributed Agile teams, announces its partnership with VersionOne, recognized as the leader in Agile management tools.

VersionOne provides sales and marketing alignment strategies and integrated marketing solutions that will enhance Velocity Partners’ continued expansion of operations and services.

"We are excited to partner with VersionOne as we embark on another phase of growth and opportunity,” said Peter Stroeve, managing partner, Velocity Partners. “We’ve experienced tremendous growth as a company with the expansion of our South American nearshore teams, and this partnership will help us further our 2012 goals."

ABOUT VELOCITY PARTNERS
Established in 2004, Velocity Partners strategically aligns with companies to develop software-based business solutions better, faster – and more cost effectively. The company partners with clients to deliver the market’s highest-quality results with the lowest total cost of engagement through nearshore services in South America. Velocity Partners consists of technology and consultancy experts in the areas of software development, digital media, mobile applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. For more information visit www.velocitypartners.net.

ABOUT VERSIONONE
VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools. By simplifying the planning and tracking of Agile projects, they help teams deliver better software faster. Since 2002, companies such as Adobe, Boeing, bwin, NASDAQ, Lilly, Lockheed Martin, AAA, Qualcomm, Sabre and Siemens have turned to VersionOne. Today more than 30,000 teams from over 170 countries use VersionOne. Agile Made Easier @ VersionOne.com.

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VELOCITY PARTNERS EXPANDS SOUTH AMERICAN LEADERSHIP TEAM WITH TWO SENIOR EXECUTIVE HIRES

Mar, 1 2012

Company announces General Manager in Uruguay and QA Principle Engineer in Argentina

BELLEVUE, Wash. (March 1, 2012) – Velocity Partners, an innovative, nearshore software development company that delivers efficiency and value through distributed Agile teams in South America, announces the hiring of Pedro Minetti as General Manager in Montevideo, Uruguay and Araceli D’Apolito as Principal Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Pedro Minetti comes to Velocity Partners from Tata Consulting Services in Uruguay where he served as deputy director. In his role as general manager for Velocity Partners Minetti is responsible for managing the operations in Uruguay, including overall financial planning, resource management and assisting the in local company growth.

Araceli D’Apolito brings more than 20 years of experience in development, analysis, and manual and automated quality assurance to Velocity Partners. In her role as principle quality assurance engineer, D’Apolito will be directly interacting with clients and supporting internal development for Velocity Partners’ QA personnel by ensuring the proper training, processes and tools are in place.

“We continue to experience tremendous growth in South America and are very excited to have our Uruguay development center up and running. Pedro Minetti brings the ideal skill set necessary to manage and grow our operations in that region and we are thrilled to have him as part of the team,” said Peter Stroeve, managing partner, Velocity Partners. “With the fast-paced expansion in Argentina we welcome Araceli D’Apolito to ensure quality and satisfaction both internally with our staff and externally amongst clients.”

ABOUT VELOCITY PARTNERS
Established in 2004, Velocity Partners strategically aligns with companies to develop software-based business solutions better, faster – and more cost effectively. The company partners with clients to deliver the market’s highest-quality results with the lowest total cost of engagement through nearshore services in South America. Velocity Partners consists of technology and consultancy experts in the areas of software development, digital media, mobile applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. For more information visit www.velocitypartners.net.
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VELOCITY PARTNERS ANNOUNCES EXPANSION INTO URUGUAY

Oct, 31 2011

New development center slated to begin in November; focus on open-source technologies

BELLEVUE, Wash. (October 31, 2011) – Velocity Partners, an innovative nearshore software development company, announces plans to build a new development center in Uruguay. In close proximity to Velocity’s existing Argentine centers in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Paraná, the new location will focus on Agile custom software development utilizing open-source technologies.

“We are very excited to be laying the groundwork for a new development center in South America,” said Peter Stroeve, managing partner, Velocity Partners. “Given our current operations in Argentina, expanding into Uruguay makes a great deal of sense and allows us to continue attracting and leveraging the strong technology talent in the region.”

Velocity Partners expects to begin the expansion process in November of 2011 and intends to grow the center by five developers – one Scrum team – per month following that time.

ABOUT VELOCITY PARTNERS
Established in 2004, Velocity Partners strategically aligns with companies to develop software-based business solutions better, faster – and more cost effectively. The company partners with clients to deliver the market’s highest-quality results with the lowest total cost of engagement through nearshore services in South America. Velocity Partners also offers Agile distributed team consulting to customers. Velocity Partners consists of technology and consultancy experts in the areas of software development, digital media, mobile applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. For more information visit www.velocitypartners.net.
Press Release

VELOCITY PARTNERS’ SENIOR PARTNER SPEAKS AT ÁGILES 2011

Oct, 31 2011

Fourth annual Latin American conference focused on Agile software development technologies

BELLEVUE, Wash. (October 31, 2011) – Velocity Partners, an innovative nearshore software development company, served as a Gold Sponsor and speaker at Ágiles 2011, the leading Latin American conference centered around agile software development. The conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 11-13, 2011.

Barnaby Sheridan, senior partner at Velocity Partners, led two presentations at Ágiles 2011: “Keys to Success in Distributed Agile Software Development” and “Guide to Usage of Agile Project Management Tools.”

The conference, now in its fourth year, brings together more than 500 Agile software development professionals from Latin America and elsewhere in the world. For Ágiles 2011, Velocity Partners joined VersionOne, Rally Software, Global Logic, Microsoft and IBM as a Gold Sponsor.

ABOUT VELOCITY PARTNERS
Established in 2004, Velocity Partners strategically aligns with companies to develop software-based business solutions better, faster – and more cost effectively. The company partners with clients to deliver the market’s highest-quality results with the lowest total cost of engagement through nearshore services in South America. Velocity Partners also offers Agile distributed team consulting to customers. Velocity Partners consists of technology and consultancy experts in the areas of software development, digital media, mobile applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. For more information visit www.velocitypartners.net.
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Velocity Partners is an innovative and world-leading nearshore software development company that delivers incredible value through a lean and agile execution model.

Peter Stroeve

Managing Partner

Brian Estep

Senior Partner

Steve Macmillan

Senior Partner

Barnaby Sheridan

Senior Partner

Shannon Hentschell

Human Resources Manager

Cristian Gohlke

Director, Nearshore Center

Pedro Minetti

General Manager, Uruguay

STORIES (who we are)

IN PROGRESS (what we do)

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RELEASED (how we are doing)

About Us

Methods

We practice practicality

Velocity Partners

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Join the ranks of the "best of the best"

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Training

Why work with Velocity

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Our agile development centers deliver value.

Rosario, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paraná, Argentina

Montevideo, Uruguay

Services

NearShore Services

Agile Distributed Team Consulting

Velocity Partners Benefits

Clients

Partners

Custom Development Solutions / Business Intelligence / Data Managment Solutions

Cohesive

Cohesive teams with similar cultures and work approach sets up long-term relantionship between major communication provider and Velocity Partners

Case Study

Improving system performance rate by 10,000 percent

Partnership

Long-term partnership strengthens ongoing project implementation

NearShore

Augmenting core development team with nearshore resources

Studies

Cases Studies

Press Release

VELOCITY PARTNERS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH VERSIONONE

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VELOCITY PARTNERS EXPANDS SOUTH AMERICAN LEADERSHIP TEAM WITH TWO SENIOR EXECUTIVE HIRES

Press Release

VELOCITY PARTNERS ANNOUNCES EXPANSION INTO URUGUAY

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VELOCITY PARTNERS’ SENIOR PARTNER SPEAKS AT ÁGILES 2011

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