Make the right choice understanding all saved time and effort
Introduction
We understand you’ve been burned with other agencies. Trying to rip you off and not providing the service you need. That’s why we set a unique process, that guarantees you first set of results without a single dollar spent.
Time
We know you are busy. You have one meeting after another. Your team keeps asking questions. Management wants an answer on the project delivery and budgets. Your freelancers are underperforming. The list goes on.
What is great about working with Lortech Solutions is that you don’t have to invest any extra time into getting work done. The 5-step process we developed makes is effortless for you, while ensuring a structured approach to finalise the project in a timely manner.
We start with a completely free audit of your dbt project and Data Warehouse. We mastered this process such that in 72h you receive a full, comprehensive report outlining:
- Why we make each of the recommendations for you?
- What specific benefit does it bring for you (time, money, scalability etc.)?
- How it should be implemented?
We leave no detail for ourselves. All the knowledge becomes yours and you are free to do with it as you please. We will discuss the results and answer any questions, so you might take it the next day and ask your team to deliver all these changes.
What we found most people prefer though, is that we take that weight off their shoulders to save them time and effort. This is where we go into the next step — which is the high-level, architecture planning and changes. The great thing about having conducted an audit of your project already, is that we know ins and outs of your system. That allows us to launch each of the subsequent steps, while all you got to do is to appoint a point of contact for reviewing the work. Then you can just carry on with your day, while receiving regular updates on the project progress and being sure, that it is going to get delivered on time — this is part of our guarantee.
Team management
Time spent on managing employees
As McKinsey found out (report) managers are spending around 28% of your time directly managing people. Do you know your number? Do you think it is too much or too little time with your team?
Either way — managing people is a tough task. It consumes a lot of energy, to be able to listen to your people, empathise with them, help them develop their skills. It gets worse when you have to let them go or micro-manage underperformers.
Regardless of where exactly the time spent with your people goes — when working with us, this is simply not on the agenda. No extra team members to manage. No performance reviews. No tough conversations.
Team’s current stretch
We’ve seen many managers scratching their had trying to come up with different ways on how to optimise team’s performance, when the team is already stretched. We’ve seen managers “cheating” on the headcount quota by hiring freelancers. We’ve seen them do all of the different things to try and get this train to go faster.
Well, with us you just don’t have to do so. Your team can focus on its existing tasks, strategy and roadmap. Review of the work we have done takes a tiny share of the time that they would have to spend if they needed to complete all of the work by themselves.
Team’s upskill
Have you ever sat and wondered how to develop your team? How they can be better, understand more complex scenarios, get creative with their technical work?
Well, part of our delivery is to train your people on all of the new work that we are doing. So not only you receive a document with full guidance and explanations that they can read, but also access to our time answering questions and upskilling your employees where needed. Let’s not kid ourselves — unless you have a truly A-star team — they are not going to read the full audit document. That’s why we deliver the extra training. To make sure they are well-equipped to keep scaling your deployments.
Tech debt
How much tech debt do you currently have? How much was simply “forgotten”? How much sits on the “we’ll do it once it is quieter” pile forever?
Part of our audit is discovering this tech debt and getting that sorted for you. The stuff you never had a chance to do. The boring stuff that no one likes doing. Be that proper documentation, automation on formatting, cleaning up folder structure — you name it, we take care of that.
Expertise
What is it you are looking for when hiring a new, technical person to your team? What’s the first requirement?
I will assume it is technical skills. Regardless of how good a person they are, they must possess a certain level of expertise before you can continue with the hiring process.
Part of our guarantee is that each of the team members holds at least two certifications in the Data Engineering field. That is dbt, Snowflake, Google, AWS certification or any other relevant to the Data Engineering field.
That ensures you won’t have to trust just our words — you can go ahead and verify for yourself the certifications of the people working on your project. That way not only we bring expertise from working internationally on multiple deployments, but also solid foundation confirmed by official certifications to give you a peace of mind.
Summary
Hiring a consulting agency can be a stressful process. You worry they overcharge you, then not deliver and you will be back to square one with your budget drained for this year.
This is why we have a guarantee that we declare in the agreement we sign:
- We guarantee timely delivery — or we forego our fee.
- We guarantee full delivery of the scope of work agreed — or we work for free until it gets done.
- We guarantee post-deployment support package included in our fees — so you can always reach out for questions, use it for team upskill, or discuss any new projects coming your way.
Let’s start with a completely free audit — so you can see what can be achieved. Then we’ll take it from there — either you choose to implement the changes yourself, or you hire us, to take all the stress off your shoulders. All we need is a brief call to get to know you, and we can get started with the audit. Here is a scheduling link:
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