Go Live & Extension Fleet and Telemetry Platform

Project Summary

Go live and extension of a telemetry and fleet management IoT Solution with 100.000+ connected devices. Setup of hyper care phase, regular operations & maintenance. Extension of system features in an iterative way. Implementation of performance and stability measures.

ClientAutomobile importer
IndustryAutomobile
Project SetupScrum, Kanban, Time & Material
SkillsRequirements Management, Solution Design, Development Coordination, Go Live Coordination, Software Operations & Maintenance
Project ManagementMichael Friedrich
Duration28 months

Challenges

  • Go Live under huge time pressure and with a significant amount of connected vehicles
  • Change from a development mode to a parallel mode of new feature development and operations for the system
  • Managing fast growth of connected vehicles
  • IoT key challenges - Data quality and consistency coming from the devices

Solution

  • Extension of team size for Go Live and hyper care phase, implementation of third level support and 24/7 operations
  • Change of development approach, from Scrum to Kanban to be able to react faster in case of urgent and complex support cases
  • Change of the team structure, push towards cross-functionality for development, testing and DevOps
  • Focus on an efficient monitoring, alarming, status page, change from dedicated servers to cloud solutions, push of performance measures to cope with quick platform growth