Outcome
Delivered a more modern, compelling and effective platform, enabling them to keep their pole position as well as resulting in a successful acquisition by London Stock Exchange .
Team
| Role | Project Lead |
| Team | 1 - 4 |
| Size | 8 - 35 |
Brought on a few months into the project to help turn around and eventually enable scaling out the teams.
Key Considerations
Delivery
Team was running behind significantly resulting in long hours and lower morale.
- Identified key roadblocks and worked on eliminating them.
- Opened communication channels with key stakeholders to agree to new commitments and change in approach without sacrificing quality.
Integration
Integration challenges with the underlying analytics system.
- Worked with analytics team to move towards an contract based approach with clear specifications
Team Scale Out
Desire to scale out aggresively with launch of several new capabilities.
- Brought on additional members resulting in tripling the team
- Implemented modularized development and packaging to support parallel teams
Technology
A modern single page application (SPA) connecting to highly scalable services through an REST API.
- Javascript
- Angular
- D3
- Sass
- NodeJS
- Java
- REST
- BDD
- Cucumber
- RSpec
