Banking

Nature of Assignment

Business benefit realised

Service / Process Reference

To coach Head of Development and team through the development process to re-write an 18 year-old legacy system that was no longer viable.

This represented a major application development, using modern technologies, for a successful application that had reached ‘end of life’ and was a significant undertaking for a team who had had the product in maintenance for their entire development careers.

The team had spent 12 months attempting to start the project but had made no visible progress.  The project commenced within four weeks of our initial involvement.

Development Troubleshooting

Team Coaching

Project Inception 

Approximate effort:  14 days

Nature of Assignment

Business benefit realised

Service / Process Reference

This assignment was to analyse and select appropriate technologies for a redevelopment of a legacy international, inter-bank payments & reconciliation application.

Rigorous business requirements capture enabled the selection of appropriate technology.  Many inappropriate factors can influence technology selection with serious consequences for total cost of ownership, flexibility and compatibility.

Trend Analysis & Emerging Technologies

Approximate effort: 5 days

Nature of Assignment

Business benefit realised

Service / Process Reference

In this assignment, we were commissioned to introduce and mentor in a process for the rigorous capture and documentation of user requirements for a major new development.

The overview requirements summary was written, and appropriate methodology designed, use-case and other templates were delivered in 3 workshops.  Our recommendation that we document the full requirements specification side-by-side with the client’s Business Analyst and other staff over an (elapsed) 11-week project was declined on grounds that the client felt the work could be taken in-house.

After 9 months the requirements specification was less than 50% complete.  The project was abandoned when the company merged with a competitor.  The competitor product was adopted as the way forward.

This project faltered when the client attempted to take the solution back in-house too quickly.  The benefit of our working with the team and ‘show by doing’ was not realised.

Development Troubleshooting

Requirements capture

Mentoring

Approximate effort: 14 days