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We go beyond shipping code to help your team solve the hardest problems and accelerate software delivery—plus set you up for success now and in the future.

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SolvE problems

Solving the common and uncommon

Our clients benefit from the lessons we've learned while serving hundreds of other teams over more than a decade. 

We help you holistically address core software challenges:

  • Prep for key moments of business change and evolve
  • Make legacy codebases more maintainable
  • Scale in the right way at the right time
  • Accelerate feature delivery and improve ROI
  • And, yes, pragmatic approaches to incorporate tools like generative AI and LLMs

get unstuck

Get unstuck and accelerate delivery

The same habits that enable rapid growth at a project's outset can slow down productivity as teams scale and complexity mounts. Embedding pairs of senior, multi-disciplinary consultants makes a difference. They get up to speed freaky fast, deliver early and often, and don’t need a lot of management. That closeup view surfaces relative strengths to build on and also uncovers opportunities for improvements. As a bonus, it's also more cost-effective!

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We also speak a bunch of languages, frameworks, tooling, and techniques. And we’ll meet your team where they are, using your tools and processes.

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Improving what is built and how it's built

Think of us as extra capacity you can trust. We have experience to get things right the first time—because we’ve seen it before. Software teams succeed when they not only build the right thing, but also build it right. Combining experienced software engineers with experienced product managers is a great recipe for helping teams move faster to achieve quality software that unlocks true business value.

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Value Quality

What makes for quality software?

Every team is different, and will face different challenges along the way. But those challenges often rhyme.

We focus on some essential truths to help teams improve how they build software:

  • Scope to strategy
  • Clarify complexity
  • Fight for feedback
  • Trust your team
  • Own the outcome
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Each and every Test Double agent brings a spirit of empathy, humility, and earnestness to their work. They bring new and exciting ideas to the team without a lot of fanfare or ego. They coach and educate without being corrective or judgmental. They empowered our employees to lead efforts and encouraged them along the way. They became part of the fabric of the team—not them and us, but one team.
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Matt Jones is a rock star. He has taken it upon himself to resolve several thorny issues. Just this morning he spiked out some code that made my request for the team to get a round-trip of a use case done super obvious about how to proceed. Bravo.

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The technology backbone developed by Test Double made this project possible at the scale that was achieved. Test Double instantly jumped in to help bring the Curbside Concerts project to life. By providing two developers they worked several weeks to stand up the online interface and a custom scheduling tool to receive concert requests and schedule routes for the driver and artist that enabled us to bring joy to over 700 seniors amidst the height of the pandemic.
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Since engaging Test Double, attrition has gone down and morale has gone up. It was a really easy discussion with my finance team to explain why we wanted to keep working with you all.
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Thinking of expanding your dev team? You might want to think again! See how smaller teams are making a huge impact with less hassle.

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Discover the enduring insights of Niklaus Wirth on lean software development. Learn how focusing on simplicity and agile practices can eliminate waste and create more efficient, sustainable software teams.

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Never staff to the peak

Justin Searls explores why recent tech layoffs were predictable and how companies can avoid them by strategically balancing full-time and contract staffing. Learn from our experience and ensure your engineering capacity meets demand without risking long-term employment commitments.

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