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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'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.

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 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.

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.

For a customer with a telecommunication background we refactored an existing integration platform developed in-house.

Also, the business intelligence application of another customer was refactored incrementally. More than 100 dialogs were redesigned from scratch. In addition, existing JavaScript code was refactored to make use of the jQuery framework. We optimized the performance of asynchronous loading of JavaScript and of images using CSS sprites. The changes increased site loading velocity threefold and reduce the lines of code by up to 75%.

For one of our customers we conducted a workshop on the topic of Mobile Internet. We informed the participants on the history of the mobile Internet, how to develop content for mobile devices, how to optimise forms used in mobile contexts, how to increase the performance of web sites, and mobile analytics. Finally, we concluded the workshop with user tests of mobile applications.

For one of our customers we conducted a two-day practical Perl workshop for advanced developers. We put a special focus on getting to know a broad range of Perl Modules (e.g. CPAN, XML::Twig, DBI, Net::SFTP::Foreign, Log::Log4perl, Config::General, autodie, Test::*, etc.). We analysed existing frameworks of our customer and discussed best practices.

For one of our customers we conducted a two-day SQL workshop. We put a special focus on teaching basics and interactive exercises on executing simple to complex database queries. In addition, we talked about database essentials, transactions, an introduction to tools and an overview of simple DDL commands. During the workshop we used the MySQL database, but also considered Oracle specifics.