News Archive / All

For one of our clients we evaluated a Windows application written in C++ and C# regarding the transparency of the described build process. Moreover we looked at the structure of the source-code, the comments in it and the available documentation and estimated the time a developer not familiar with the project would need to be able to start with further development of the application.

On May 27th and 28th, 2009 a public Certified Scrum Master Training took place in TNG's office. As in January 2009 the training was held by Boris Gloger, the first certified Scrum Trainer in Europe and author of the book "Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln". This time an additional "Scrum cooking" event was offered, so that the participants had a chance to deepen their knowledge while cooking together.

For a gastronomy and franchise company, we implemented several adjustments and enhancements in its IT landscape. We adapted an application for master data management to the new German packaging rules and implemented an additional optimisation method for an automatic ordering system. Moreover, we switched the whole web application landscape to UTF-8 and optimised the software development process via a Python-based database import/export script.

We supported one of our customers from the insurance sector with using a rule engine for validating insurance applications. Our client planned to automate tests, which have been carried out only by clerks until now. We provided advice for writing the rules and built a prototype based on the open-source rule engine Drools. The client decided to introduce the technology based on its experience with the prototype.

We took responsibility for another sub-project within the insurance company we are supporting since February. The new project had high visibility as it dealt with processes and software at our client's sales partner. We supported our client during requirements engineering and coordinated multiple stakeholders - business and development departments and suppliers -, and helped synchronising the sales partner and its suppliers.

We conducted a training for a client's operations staff. The training dealt with Java basics, Apache httpd and Tomcat setups, the Java memory model, threading, garbage collection and tool-supported monitoring of Java applications. Using a demo application running in an virtual machine, typical scenarios were simulated and discussed in an realistic environment.

We stabilised a production cluster running Apache httpd and Tomcat. Before our efforts, the applications had to be restarted weekly due to connection leaks. We detected and fixed the root cause via analysing existing data and implementing additional monitoring facilities.

We evaluated the usability of a client's analysis application via end user interviews. We identified possible starting points for improvement and helped our client in finding ways to roll out software with increased usability in a short time frame.

We designed and implemented a comprehensive end-to-end monitoring system for billing applications. We employed the open source monitoring system Nagios, the programming language Perl and Oracle databases.

We analysed a huge legacy application for the creation and the management of digital certificates. We had a look at the source code quality and forecasted the complexity of functional extensions. We used - amongst others - static code analysers for the analysis of Java and C++ source code and manual inspections. We gave detailed feedback to the application's user regarding possible weaknesses and future improvement possibilities.