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We supported a financial service provider by relocating its data center without interrupting operations. The hard- and software of the whole technology stack was updated simultaneously. The new infrastructure does not only provide substantially better performance and reliability, but also an optimal utilization of the hardware due to virtualisation. An extensive monitoring and performance management was introduced as well as automatic configuration management and deployment.

For one of our customers we reimplemented an application for managing a data farm of simulation models. We redesigned and unified the interfaces of the appliction for fetching the descriptions of the simulation experiments and for returning the processed results to the connected systems.

After our successful refactoring of an existing software integration environment in the telecommunication industry, we took over the further maintanenance and development of this huge system.

We supported a customer extending their Java enterprise application for auditing. Within this project we showed our customers how to use a Scrum development process and thus helped our customer introducing Scrum to their development department.

We supported a customer's IT department improving their change management process. We refined requirements in several workshops and realised a software solution prototype based on the JIRA issue tracker. After the customer's acquisition decision, we implemented the necessary customizations and put JIRA into production. We also trained all end users and gave operational support during the introductory phase.

On September 10th and 11th, 2009 a Certified Scrum Master Training took place in TNG's office, complemented by a talk about "Real-Life Scrum" by one of our experts.

On September 10th, 2009 we invited customers to an event "Scrum - Theory and Practice". Our consultants gave insights on agile development methods and practical hints.

TNG was main sponsor of the event House of Open Scrum on October 7th, 2009. Two of our experts presented TNG's best practices in putting agile development methods into place in a talk called Scrum in der Praxis.

We supported a customer's internal IT department introducing a new issue/bug tracking system, Atlassian Jira. The system got deployed for the whole company. We supported with basic installation and configuration tasks, gathered requirements for several pilot projects, specified and aligned the required workflows in collaboration with stakeholders and help configuring Jira. The system was a great success with end users: Within a few weeks more than a thousand tickets were processed in the system.

TNG is now a member of the Supporters Club of the Cambridge University Computing Lab and of the Corporate Partnership Programmes of the Computing Department at the Imperial College at London University. TNG is offering internships for students of these renowned institutes.

We augmented a project within a customer's data warehouse with a test expert and a scrum coach. We created a test concept allowing our customer to validate the correctness of reports without using live production data, for the the first time . Applying the inspect and adapt principle systematically, our customer increased his team velocity fourfold during the project.

We supported a customer with a telecommunication background integrating three new partners into an existing software system by providing the bigger part of the integration team. In addition, we implemented a web shop for preordering for one of the partners. The web shop is using Java, Tapestry 5, Axis 1.4, SOAP, Apache and Tomcat. The project was finished on time despite an extremely tight schedule.