The process makes it possible

Our process is designed to navigate complexity and de-risk your IoT project. Agility, expertise, and true partnership are key.

Transparency is fundamental to who we are

This applies to every aspect of our operations and every element of every project we execute for our clients. On this page, you will find details of the processes we have put into place to deliver at the highest level across our IoT expertise

We set clear expectations for our teams and our projects

We have a set of clear-cut procedures and best practices in place across Very that guide how we engage. Built on clear communication and trusted partnership, we cultivate a culture of mutual respect and shared success with clients and with each other.

Our remote culture

We've been a remote-first company since day one, and a remote-only company for years. That means we can attract and retain some of the most talented designers, developers, data scientists, and project managers from across the country. Remote work isn't for everyone, so our people need to be highly self-motivated with excellent communication skills. Over the years we have learned a lot about how to make remote work work. Our remote code of conduct helps us collaborate seamlessly and excel at distributed client service. nec.

Starting your project strong:

Our process sets you up for success from the start
We begin by learning everything there is to know about your business, your customers, and the challenge at hand in order to test assumptions and identify knowledge gaps. It is vital that we know what we don't know, so we can fill the riskiest knowledge gaps and validate, or invalidate, the riskiest assumptions. At the start, we also review existing research and review competitive products.

Your Technical Design Sprint
Every Very project starts with our rigorous Technical Design Sprint. This process takes place over the course of several days to several weeks. Working through a tight agenda, this method aligns our teams around goals and helps us build the rapport and communications that will keep our project on track.
Our Technical Design Sprint is designed to define business needs, give context to end users, and better understand the solution we're bringing to market. With end users at the core of a successful IoT product deployment, we identify the situations in which they will use the product and its features, and we determine their motivations. Together, we decide what success looks like — for the whole project and for customers.

The goal of a Technical Design Sprint is to:

Develop a phased product roadmap that provides the most value to users, as quickly as possible
Understand and document the full scope of requirements for launching your product
Mitigate project risk through technical research spikes to understand cost, complexity, and time required to build and launch the features of the application
Design prototypes to help us understand how the application will function
Determine the correct technology stack to support the functionality, design, platform performance requirements, and constraints

IoT projects can feel high risk. For many organizations, projects of this scale can be either transformative or disastrous. With each project comes its own unique concerns and constraints, and our process is designed to identify potential roadblocks, bottlenecks, and failure points right out of the gates.

The Technical Design Sprint unearths many of these potential risks from the start of a project, but challenges will arise throughout every project. We use Research Spikes to better understand issues as they arise. Often, this comes in the form of evaluating an external service or software, but as your product complexity increases, so does risk.