The ability to adapt to market needs makes us increasingly competitive, and pushes us to a culture and tools that offer a high level of collaboration, sharing, and better results.
AGILE
DEVOPS
DATA MANAGEMENT
ITSM
Data and process migration to the cloud
Hyperconverged IT infrastructures
OUR EXPERIENCE
REQUEST
The characteristics of this methodology (using a “rules set” needed to create an “agile” environment; product development divided in monthly “sprints”; requirements selected “autonomously” by the team from an item box; “product backlog” related to the product in development; every sprint is defined by one or more elements taken from the “Sprint backlog” according to the defined priorities) helped to highlight the actual benefits both for development and for the customer, who will be able to constantly monitor the progress of the project through:
- Less interruptions: the team has a clear goal
- More feedback: the customer can see his/her product grow at every release
- Less parallelism: keeping the focus on the goal
The first chance to adopt the agile methodology was to fulfil the request for an alcohol company operating on the worldwide market – among the 100 companies with the highest capitalization in the London Stock Exchange – that required an application to verify all the processes for every stage of production and the traceability of the products.
SOLUTION
The choice to fulfil this request was not only a technological solution, but also a methodological solution, since the stages of the process were so complex and structured that they absolutely needed to be approved by the customer during the development.
The methodology was focused to define the vision board of the system
- What is the goal of the product?
- TARGET GROUP: What market or market segment does the product aim to?
- REQUIREMENTS: What problem does the product solve? What benefit does it provide?
- PRODUCT: What product is that? What makes it unique? Is its development viable?
- BUSINESS GOALS: How will the product benefit the company?
The analysis of all points and the application of the methodology with its principles ensured that the agreed solution completely satisfied the expectations of the customer. That allowed an improvement of the customer experience, a swift adjustment to the customer’s requests and a a short-term tangible value through steady progresses.
REQUEST
SOLUTION
The implementation of the program required a working model, structured with relations to all the parties involved in the transformation (Development and Operations) and the activation of a Migration Factory for the definition and the integrated coordination of the migration path in view of “Cloud First”, of the related patterns of transformation oriented to standardization and optimization of architecture, and executive configuration of the systems, improving their effectiveness and efficiency.
Our contribution in the design involved the support for applicative remediation activities and management of the migrations in cloud (Iaas – Paas) until the testing stages and the following transition to production.