Community management, SEO and social media from Barcelona.

We move ourselves around the open source environment, by principles. As active members of the communities that conform the different technologies used for our development, while working on our client's projects we are motivated by the same spirit and overcoming will, and are pleased when things work and are being done right.

And when we find difficulties, having an army of volunteers that eventually can help you out is priceless.

User is the main character, and links between users and applications modify the relationship space to transform unidirectional and bidirectional orientations into multidirectional ones.

Hence, tools that aim to get the most in performance and benefit from what the network has to offer, must be based on this statement. Communities or groups to spread discussion, exchanging resources, generate opinion and knowledge form information, social networks that sprout to establish new relationship levels, recommendation engines to dynamize content and adapt it to the user needs... These are examples of actions Nuvolic execute to offer to its customers the best.

We plan our project developments with non-proprietary technology not only because of a matter of ideology or taste but also because in both short and long term costs drop and efficiency raises. Besides, this way the dependencies that between the customer and the technology provider disappear.

To strengthen this last point, Nuvolic attaches all the productivity processes with continuous documentation generation to be able, at any time, let the customer change its technology parters painlessly.

Our designs integrate functionalism with aesthetics. Our developers write code as a poet would caress their verses. This is the romantic spirit we want to show.

Our profession is, sometimes closer to arts and crafts than to an exact science. Things done right, thus, set the difference our customers appreciate.

As life, everything changes, and what at first was considered a good choice turns out to be the opposite in the middle of a development. Our initial vision changes, as our project routes are rectified and modified.

Our modus operandi allows us to be flexible, identify possible errors on time, change paradigms or control in detail the goals progress. How do we do it? Using a circular work process in which methodologies exist that enable the project managers drive a healthy development, away from bugs, errors, or chronic diseases.

A sprint is every recurrent cycle with which Nuvolic bases its project developments. The time each cycle lasts is different (a few days, weeks, a month...) depending on the situation or unexpected project issues.

In the beginning of each sprint, a meeting is scheduled between Nuvolic and the customer. It's important to notice that all parts and departments must participate; marketing, sales, developers, system administrators, product managers... Goals and targets are then identified to be included inside the spring development, work is distributed into tasks that developers will weight later on, and finally work begins.

When the project is ready and in a mature state, sprints are reformulated to fit them into a single release -- that is, a version of the product. Sometimes a new release could mean including new features, sometimes improvements, or maybe design or functional changes. A codename is set and a release date scheduled, so this way all the parts a sprint spans become something that everybody can reference in their work.

Before deploying a new release, it is tested, and once the OK is given, all changes are applied to be reachable for the users.

During the development process the customer works side by side with us. Who knows better what is required, and how what is being built has to be? It would be absurd that Nuvolic, as a company that integrates collaborative solutions, would not collaborate with its customers to create such solutions.

Creating basic user models helps out having a broader picture of what the final user will require; users will have the last word, they are the judges who dictate the success or failure of a project.

Setting strategies such as search engine positioning or online presence is also worth considering. Quantity and quality of effort put on this kind of tasks will rely on the customer pace or needs.

The tools deployed to achieve our goals span from the good old phone and email to the most sophisticated ones, like ticketing systems, bugtrackers, instant messaging or IRC. Customers must bring information and opinion to the project. This feedback is precious for us!

All documentation Nuvolic generates is also accessible at the private customer space. The customer is always up-to-date, this is necessary to the project health.

In fact, we don't like to think about endings. This world is changing so fast and so many times that we have to constantly be getting on, changing, recycling, growing, adapting our products to the times' needs. There is always things to be done in our projects and products: continue promoting them with SEO techniques, improve their infrastructures, include more and better features... As a living organism, once it has been born it cannot be left apart, we have to feed it with the users feedback, observe the evolution to verify whether or not our first assumptions were correct, or analyze inputs to start making diagnostics that will help us predict the next step forward.