The beginnings

VirtusLab since it was founded in 2010, has been creating various products (according to customer thoughts) and building strong competences in the area of ​​Software Development Efficiency, apart from the typical work on software services. It can be said that R&D ideas have always been present in VirtusLab to build tools that improve the daily work of our programmers. In 2017 due to the fact that we have significantly grown, we had to pack our R&D initiatives in a process to make them transparent for everyone. We set a goal to search for each improvement that can replace manual, repetitive activities that occur during the creation of any IT system/app. Also thanks to our work for top clients, we could participate in building the most demanding solutions, and watch how project methodology looks in very large dev teams, often dispersed.

3 years of R&D in numbers

In the beginning, we encouraged employees to come with any ideas to build awareness of R&D. However, our specialization has clearly shown that teams mainly explored topics in the field of Software Development Efficiency as well as Software Understanding and Software Visualization. Therefore, we decided that exploring these areas would be one of VirtusLab's more important long-term goals.

During 3 years of VirtusLab’s Research and Development, we've been working on:

• 23 ideas (discussed & early work on PoC)
• 5 accepted PoC development
• 4 ideas* formed into full-time projects: Context Buddy, Graph Buddy, Vived, Jenkins-operator 

Growth through innovation

Thanks to the simple framework and intensive R&D sessions we are able to extract the most valuable ideas, design and develop PoC of products and test them in a production environment. Our employee’s research is improving the daily work of our VLteams, the services we are offering to our clients, and contribute to the tech community.