We build high-performance product organizations.
We work cross-functionally to build robust and efficient digital products and the business processes that support them.
An app is more than just drawing wireframes and writing code—it is a collaborative exercise in stewardship of relationships, processes, resources, and roadmap.
We are committed to delivering outsized value by combining a people-and-process focused approach with a rigorous engineering methodology.
Values
Trust, autonomy, transparency
Automation, process, documentation
Pragmatic, not dogmatic
The Holy Trilemma: budget, scope, and timeline—in that order
Experience shows us that—
budget tends to be the overriding concern,
scope tends to change as the project goes on,
and the marginal cost of a month's delay in go-to-market tends to be both low and inevitable as requirements evolve during the lifetime of a project.
We don't do the "foot in the door" tactic of an initial Statement of Work that promises the moon, only to be followed up by a succession of change orders to get to some semblance of "done".
We work within your budget to build a right-sized, sustainable product organization and tech platform that you own and operate.
Always be shipping
We apply the kaizen principle of continuous improvement in our approach. Changes are incremental and frequent. To achieve this, we use continuous delivery: the ability of any team member to confidently ship to production at any time.
Continuous delivery enables continuous improvement.
Any platform can be set up with continuous delivery principles, and ensuring it is in place and working is our first in-the-code task before any other development work.
Service menu
l’apéro
Business plan and budget build-out
Operational/technical architecture review
Product/platform planning session
l’entrée
Technical, financial, legal due diligence
Management, engineering, and product coaching
Continuous integration / continuous delivery installation and training
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Initial build out and go to market
Platform migration planning and execution
Targeted product development
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Execution of 12+ month roadmap
Fractional CTO, dedicated senior engineering, senior product design, project management, & subject matter experts
Headcount planning and recruitment of your in-house engineering team
about the chef
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Benjamin van der Veen has over 20 years experience in software consulting. Early wins in the tech industry include writing the first 3rd-party iPhone app to smoothly scroll a list of images way back in 2007, leading an open source effort to standardize .NET web service hosting around 2009, and introducing test and deployment automation at a large email service provider in 2011. A few startups later, he founded Survant James in 2013 and has been providing outsized value to discerning customers ever since.
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