Crowdar is a crowdsourcing company that harnesses the collective skills of a broad network or "crowd" to provide IT and business solutions. It offers testing, consulting, data, and operations services using a private crowd of professionals. Crowdar aims to rapidly scale teams according to demand at lower costs than traditional outsourcing while maintaining quality control. Its advantages include quality assurance of work, competitive pricing, and experienced crowdsourced professionals with low rotation.
2. What is Crowdsourcing?
“Crowdsourcing is a sourcing delivery option that uses cloud
technology and models to leverage the collective skills and
knowledge of a broad network of people (the "crowd" — a group
of self- nominated individuals vying for opportunities to work on
crowdsourced challenges) to produce solutions to IT and
business problems. It offers an alternative to using in-house
resources, outsourcing or staff augmentation.”
Gartner
3. “The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people and
especially from the online community rather than from
traditional employees or suppliers.”
Wikipedia
What is Crowdsourcing?
4. CrowdAr offers managed crowdsourcing
services using micro-tasking with private
and public crowds to solve business
needs, specially for start-ups (small and
medium size businesses)
Crowdar
5. • Crowdar is the first Crowdsourced IT Services in
Latin America
• We add value with best professionals controlling
the quality of their services
• We have a private crowd of professionals in
Argentina, Chile, US and India.
Crowdar
7. Our services
IT Consulting
• Our crowd of senior IT consultants
includes Cloud Infrastructure
experts, Agile mentors, Project
Managers and DBAs.
Testing Services
• We test your software with professional
testers or final users from our crowd,
depending on your software target
audience and complexity. We cover the
complete testing lifecycle from
Management to Automation.
Operations
• We give you extra-hands to cover peaks
of demand in your back office. Data
entry, order processing, customer care
back office.
Data Services
• Our services of Data Cleansing, Data
Enrichment and Data Classification are
ideal to clean up your customer
database, prospect database and
transactional data.
8. Our value proposition
Scale
• Rapid scale tems according to
demand without scaling the
cost or timelines
Quality
• We control the quality of the
job done according to customer
expectations
Cost
• Lower costs compared with
outsourcing players
Crowd Management
• We manage the crowd for your
company
9. Our advantages
● Quality: exhaustive quality assurance of the
crowdsourced job
● Elastic: our crowdsourced model let us scale
quickly the number of resouces without
affecting the results
● Competitive costs: lower costs compared
with traditional outsourcing companies,
based on our flat and small structure.
10. Our advantages
• Experienced professionals: our team are
experienced and has the knowledge to work
with word-class tools
• Lower rotation: lower rotation, as we don’t
compete with full time employers. We absorb
rotation with number of resources in our Crowd.
• Mentioned by Gartner: only company in
Argentina, and one of the main companies in
Latin America of Crowd Testing http://www.gartner.
com/document/3018219
11. Testing Services
Build & Manage
Test Plans
Build Functional
Test Cases
Execute Test
Cases with
Professional
Testers
Automate Test
Cases
Final User’s
testing
Run automated
Test
Run
Perfomance
Test
Our aim is to be the End-To-End
Testing Process
leading provider
Mentoring in
Testing
Management Preparation AutomationExecution
12. ● We follow the main practices from the
various QA Professional Entities
○ SEI - Software Engineering Institute
○ EOQ-SG - European Organization for Quality - Software Group,
○ American Society for Quality - American Society for Quality
○ Association for Software Testing
○ QAI Global Institute
○ SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network,
○ Society for Software Quality
● We select the right tools and methods
according to the customer needs.
Best Practices in QA
13. Selection of best and
“right” practice for
the customer
Select and
implement
tools
Create metrics
and measure
progress against
them
TEACH & TRAIN customer team and work together on-site
OUTCOME
PROFESSIONAL Testing team adapted to the increasing demand of
software quality
Mentoring Model
14. Based on Initial
Diagnosis select
● Methodology
● Test Types
● Tools
● Metrics
Mentoring Activities
Initial
Diagnosis
Select
Tools &
Methods
Training
Implemen
tation
Analyze existing
process
Find Gaps
Strengths &
Weaknesses
Measure
Teach & train
based on tools
and methods
selected
Implement tools
& methods in real
project
working on-site
or remote
mentoring the
team
Measure
results
Measure results &
contrast against
initial meassures
15. Build a Quality Assurance and
Testing Team
PROFESSIONAL
and with
HIGH PERFORMANCE
Our goal