Customer:

German leading rental and sales brokerage of real estates, financial brokerage company. Cooperating with over 70 banks (including HypoVereinsbank, Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank, Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank, Citibank) In 2009 awarded with “FlowFact Award” for innovation and achieved a high rank on „immobilienmanager AWARD 2009” list.

Project name:

Internet and Intranet portal for customers and business partners.

Technologies:

Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE), JSP, Oracle, JBoss, EJB, Struts, Web Services, JavaMail, HTML, JavaScript, PDFlib, FTP, Ant, Eclipse, Log4j, jUnit.

Project starting point description:

• customer already had large internet portal with an intranet thin client application – this platform was the key point in cooperation with business partners and communication with customers,
• main architect and developer who designed and maintained the system from the beginning left the company,
• existing system was poorly documented and contained many unused functionalities,
• existing system was constantly developed, new functionalities were added, many of which contained flaws continuously reported by users. Solutions for most of those errors were delayed in time up to the point where pressure from users was too significant.

Project tasks:

• analysis of existing system, functionalities and architecture,
• bugs and change requests identification and verification,
• effort estimation for development of all reported bugs/change requests,
• bug fixing and implementation of chosen change requests.

Achievements:

• the team got familiar with the large system and was ready to begin estimations and verification of bugs in a very short period of time (approx. 1,5 week),
• first productive code (bug fixes) was written after 2 weeks from project start,
• precise and accurate effort estimations,
• customer (cost effectiveness) and end-user (development of errors/bugs reported often more than a year ago) satisfaction with performed tasks.