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We supported a medium-sized telecommunication carrier to fulfill the requirements of the compliance test for the order interface of the Deutsche Telekom AG. Due to the high test coverage and the automated deployment the test ran smoothly and within very short time.

We supported a customer in switching from a semi-automatic mailing process to a fully automated system. PDF files are generated based on user templates using Apache FOP. Furthermore, the processing chain integrates a printing service provider and a digital document archive. The new system generates over two thousand letters per day with an error rate that is reduced by 90%.

We supported a provider of an internationally used financial administration software during the go live phase of the introduction of their product in the headquarters of a multinational company. The software consists of engines written in Java, which communicate through events; this leads to to a good scalability by distribution to additional servers. We assisted with searching and solving defects and extended the reporting features. Despite the late project phase we introduced continuous integration. Thus defects in the customer specific code got immediately visible and could be fixed soon, so that valuable development time was saved in this critical project phase.

In the course of the agile enhancements of the BI landscape of a B2B mail order company we successfully integrated the data from the central planning tool of the controlling department. Thus our customer was able to generate automated reports about planned and actual sales volumes for the first time.

For an enterprise customer in the telecommunications sector we developed an ExtJS-web application for managing a new, cloud-based communication solution. We implemented the application within very short time with two interacting Scrum teams consisting of up to twelve TNG consultants. In addition, we supported the business process analysis and the agile requirements engineering in an advisory capacity.

For the fourth time, TNG organised the Big Techday. About 365 visitors experienced a day full of technically interesting talks from industry and research, amongst others about the Stuxnet worm and about aircraft avatars.

We supported a customer integrating his own customer and sales data from new business sectors that he had gained by a merger. Our focus was to extend existing planning and reporting applications. The further development was conducted with agile methods in two-week sprints.

We supported a customer in the telecommunication sector by resolving production problems. By preparing technical requirements documents, patches for currently occurring defects could be commissioned. By connecting the planning tool of the department to the corporate bug tracking and version control systems as well as by rewriting the vendor management plan the defect handling was improved.

A group of TNG colleagues gave a lecture course at Hochschule Augsburg on agile software development. Talks and tutorials on topics such as agile testing, continuous integration and deployment, agile requirements engineering, and agile process models were given by domain experts.

On the occasion of a visit of a member of the Jenkins Interim Governance Board, TNG organised a CI gathering followed by a hackathon. The 20 guests heard talks by Jenkins committers, amongst others the developer of the Static Analysis Plugins. They then worked together on new plugins. In the end the foundations for two new plugins were developed, which now have to get the final polishing.