Team Extension for a Finance Giant
Big or small, established or start-up, every organization or business needs a capable and skilled software development team to materialize its digital goals and ambitions. Team extension comes in handy when an organization does not have an in-house tech team or when a technology firm finds that it is missing some capabilities in its existing in-house team.
Here is a client success story of how we served as an extended software development team of one of the Big Four accounting organizations. The Dutch client had a string of projects (including that of their clients) that needed the expertise of an efficient cross-functional team of developers, designers, and testers.
Requirement Outline
The client was on the lookout for an offshore team that could easily understand their project requirements, proactively contribute to the software, provide timely updates, and follow industry-standard best practices.
Our Approach and Solutions
- Maintained backup resources as part of risk mitigation in view of the requirements of the targeted software
- Timely updates via daily calls with screen share ensured that the team is moving in the right direction and pace. Timely identification of hiccups ensured timely actions to rectify them
- JIRA as a project management tool effectively contributed to the Sprint-based project development model
- Sprint retrospectives enabled immediate actions including resource add-ons and cut-downs
- Tasks done and uploaded to the GIT repository were automatically published via the Continuous Deployment mechanism which ensured the Software Tester at the other end received the latest version of software quickly
- Employing an Agile development process, the team worked with Visual Studio 2015 to develop high-quality deliverables on an SQL Server as the backend. It helped us in meeting the exacting standards set by the customer
Challenges Involved
- Keeping up with the quality expectations of this financial giant was the primary challenge faced
- Achieving a seamless collaboration with the client as well as with the multitude of other tech teams drawn globally
- They had a list of stringent criteria to be met. Faster response time, the credibility of data, security of the system, consistency of the software, etc. were a few of them.
Highlights
- Our team collaborated on multiple projects. A few of them were: a resource planning software, a banking calculation & reporting web app, an intranet web system, a website monitoring & scanning app, etc.
- All these projects needed some of the niche skills of the time and we could fulfill all the requirements swiftly and efficiently.
The Technologies Used
MVC ASP.Net, C#.Net, JQuery, Entity Framework, HTML 5, CSS3, Kendo UI MVC Toolki, Ajax
The Outcome
The client was impressed by our Distributed Agile Team Service Model helped strengthen the in-house team of their clients in a structured manner.
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