Digital Product Development
5
People involved
1 Technical Coach + 4
Full-Stack Developers
Framework
Scrum + eXtreme Programming
Core business software development
Custom-built, reliable, and robust
Challenge
The client needed to make the leap in quality and differentiation that their market demanded.
- The company needed a scalable, multilingual core system capable of supporting its regional expansion and business growth.
- Although the initial technological platform had sustained the early business, it could no longer accommodate increased volume.
- Every new feature required costly manual testing, increasing the risk of errors and delaying time-to-market.
- This brought immense risk to business continuity and generated significant overhead due to the effort dedicated to manual testing activities.
Goal
Build a modern and reliable core, with quality assured by automation and secure deployments.
Scale the business without turning every change into a risk.
Solution
An Agile team that took end-to-end ownership
- Discovery + Architecture
We start by understanding the product and design a technical foundation built to scale.
- Core Construction + Channels
Building the backend application + 3 frontend applications + data migration.
- Quality and Continuous Deployment
Automated testing and CI/CD to deliver changes securely and frequently.
Practices
What did we implement?
- Scrum + XP as the core framework.
- TDD and automated testing as the foundation of quality.
- Continuous Integration + Continuous Deployment.
- Slicing and feature toggling for non-blocking delivery.
- Collective Code Ownership + pair/mob programming.
- Evolutionary design + Rolling Updates + automated database versioning.
Technologies
* Java (Spring) * TypeScript * Angular + Bootstrap * Docker * AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, ECR) * CloudFlare * GitLab CI * Jasmine * Cypress * Cucumber * JUnit
Outcome
Operational peace of mind and client focus directed entirely at their business strategy.
End-to-end ownership
Responsibility
Infrastructure, product, testing & deployment
With the Esfera Way, the client gained the peace of mind of having a solid team that took full ownership of everything—from infrastructure to continuous and secure deployment.
Continuous Delivery
Fast and secure production deployments
Today, the client can focus on defining the business strategy, while the team handles testing and production deployments.
The working dynamic is highly collaborative.
Satisfied client and team
Furthermore, the structured ways of working helped improve collaborative dynamics and the regular delivery of value.