Today, more than ever, we and our clients are constantly talking and talking about issues such as Accessibilityecodesign, safety, performance, SEO websites that are built for and with them... All these approaches, reference points and good practices are used to boost the meaning, interest and value of the sites produced.
These subjects could thus be regulfed under a single word, quality, a word of which these 5 subjects are both pillars and valuable indicators.
While the production processes (on the tooling and organisational aspect) are well in place and tested at Be API, applying the state of mind of quality on everything that relates to user experience remained to be consolidated across the agency (all trades).
And since there are no 4 paths to get in the right order, the year 2022 was the year "strong opposition" at Be API !
For the late ones...
Yes, one could have completely failed to remember who Opquast is, but the following will at least have the merit of allowing those who do not yet know (shame on you) the organization to hang up the cars.
Because the official website will explain much better than we could do here, Opquast (Open Quality Standards), in summary and with links, is :
- one state of mind at the service of users
- a transversal vision transcribed into a simple model to understand, remember and use
- full of clear and consensual rules, materialised and categorized in a checklist
- a certification recognized in the world of the web
- of the Training to go further
- one network of professionals who speak the same language
This will allow you to understand by which box Be API and a very large number of web professionals and students have passed in recent years.
Quality in Be API DNA
Since its creation in 2009, quality is a value that has always been part of Be API's vision and the actions put in place to meet this need:
- At the agency level: quality is above all why the agency wants to be known and recognised;
- At the customer level: quality is necessarily and almost systematically at the top of the pile of its requirements.
Be API is positioned very clearly and for a long time as "Creators of digital happiness". How could the agency make such a promise to its clients if quality was not already at the heart of its way of working?
The agency has continuously adapted to market developments to advance and advance its teams in order to offer its customers constructive, logical and effective collaboration:
- Technically, this goes through The gradual adoption of working methods adapted to changes in the profession. On our side, Architecture code, Pair programming, Versionning, Pull requests and Code review have been part of our habits for a long time, not to mention our numerous maintenance-mode (TMA) actions to monitor and make live/evolve the different sites of our customers;
- At the organizational level, all processes (agency/client workshops, design monitoring, estimates, cutting, production monitoring) are also in place for a long time, thus ensuring that all project participants are on the same wavelength, from the beginning to the end of the project;
- Finally, quality development within the Agency could not be done without interaction/confrontation with peers in the trade. Participate in the community's dedicated events (in particular WordPress community with the national and international WordCamps), participate technically in the development of our favorite tool (open-source dedicated team), continuously training (software, languages, frameworks, good practices, ...) are all good ways to challenge (and a minimum maintain) a high level of quality.
General Tour, certification for everyone!
Fortunately, web quality is not simply about obtaining certification (even if it makes a nice badge to show in customer presentations or on the CV), nor about consulting and filling a checklist at the end of the project.
In spite of this, the certification "Quality management in web project" remains the best way to start (or update) with web quality.
The summer of 2022 was therefore studious at Be API. From June to September, each BeApiste learned, revised, prepared his topic. The certifications were passed on to each person's progress and communicated to the rest of the team as they progressed.
The very good scores falling to the dropper motivated the troops to challenge themselves and try to do better than the neighbour. The rules have also been found several times at the centre of informal conversations within teams (sometimes at the end of meetings, during lunch breaks, or even in the middle of a babyfoot game), creating a global synergy between learners.
And this is one of the strongest interests in preparing this certification: creating a linker and a common language between members of a team who are used to working together on a daily basis.
Be API, partner agency
Opquast, in addition to the rules and training it provides, is also a powerful tool for linking the actors of the web (French above all), which in fact fits perfectly with the main objective of Opquast to extract and standardize a common language.
Opquast speaks openly about community, bringing together the agencies, organisations, schools and training centres of which Opquast is a partner, not to mention the 17,000 (+ of) certified who went through the basic training of Opquast.
It was therefore quite logical for Be API to position itself beyond certification, especially as an Opquast partner.... what has been done since December 2022.
To conclude
Be API is now better equipped to support its customers and guide them more effectively towards design, technical, or strategic choices that are relevant, realistic and ambitious.
So if you want a quality web project, lasting in time, and of course based on WordPress, contact us on the chat or via the contact form for our site !
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