Rapid Development Group adds programming talent

Leveraging its distributed workforce, technical skills and strong word-of-mouth, Rapid Development Group has had an increase business that allowed them to double in size, adding three programmers in the last several months.

According to Mike Bopp, a developer and charter employee, Rapid Development Group was started in 2009 after an agency that he worked at along with Brett and Jonathan Chaffer closed its doors.

After that experience, they decided they “very much wanted to go against the agency model” with their business.

Besides have a wide range of technical competencies and a lean operating model from its distributed workforce, Bopp says one of their keys to success is that the programmers are also the sales force.

“When you talk to us, you are talking directly to a programmer,” he says, which he cites as being a much better way to understand customer needs and implement cost-effective solutions.

Bopp says one of their “go-to” skills is their expertise with Drupal, a framework for web development.

“Drupal is very scalable and developer-centric,” he says. “It helps get websites up quicker.”

For his part, Bopp works out of The Factory (38 W. Fulton, Ste. 320), a co-working space in downtown Grand Rapids where he also recruited a couple of their new hires.

To contact the Rapid Development Group, you can visit their site here.

Source: Mike Bopp, Rapid Development Group
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs Editor