"The Java Team grabbed the problem and ran with it. The reality was savings and productivity."
Client Case Study: Software Engineering Process Improvement

Our Client's relatively young development team was working in a grossly inefficient development environment.

The team was under such continuous feature and bug release pressure that they did not have the resources or experience to assess and optimize their own software engineering process.

After assessing the situation, <TheJavaTeam/> identified and quantified developer productivity waste of up to $7000/week! We targetted these inefficiencies and eliminated them.

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Client Issue: Young Team, Bad Habits Results: Efficiencies at Every Turn
  • Single Underpowered Shared Application Server
  • Inefficient App Server Configuration for Dev Environment
  • App Server Required Cycling Per Test
  • Testing Required Walking from Machine to Machine
  • Multiple 'Unregulated' RDBMS Versions
  • Redundant Code Bases
  • Eliminated All Physical Movement
  • Eliminated App Server Cycling
  • When Required, App Server Startup Time Reduced by 95%
  • Eliminated RDBMS Versioning Errors
  • Unified to Single Code Base
<TheJavaTeam/> Approach: Attack One Inefficiency At a Time Client ROI: Productivity that Hums
  • Local App Server Sandbox for Everyone
  • Configure App Server for No Precompilation of JSPs
  • Configure App Server for dynamic class reloading
  • Automate CVS integration
  • Automate Build and Deploy of JSPs, EJBs
  • Stabilize RDBMS Deployment and Versioned Naming Conventions
  • Approx. $7,000/Week Waste Eliminated
  • Dramatic Bug Fix and Feature Turnaround Increase
  • New Developers Became Productive within an Hour
  • Long-lived, Repeating Productivity Gains
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    In Their Own Words: Director of Product Development Buzzwords
  • "There was no notion of how to build or to effectively use CVS."
  • "The Java Team grabbed the problem and ran with it."
  • "The reality was savings and productivity."
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    • ANT
    • Weblogic
    • CVS
    • JSP
    • EJB
    • MS SQL Server 2000