Bringing a legacy platform to mobile for Environmental Health & Safety auditors
Scout and tracer are both incident reporting tools utilized by a variety of companies to help monitor and track environmental health and safety issues, as well as manage change for those issues.
- Role
- Scrum Master & QA
- Year
- 2015-2017
Approach
Our team’s role was to help bring these desktop native products to Android and iOS devices. We accomplished this by applying agile methodologies to develop epics in a timely fashion with continuous QA to assure the product would keep working. My role as a scrum master involved managing scrum for two onshore and offshore teams.
Result
Both products are actively in use today. Lessons : When working with global development teams, it’s important communicate ideas concisely and to limit the degree to which they can be interpreted, otherwise you might cause more confusion than clarity. This project was also a testament to the importance of usability and user research, in that testing concepts early can reduce costs for business in the future when user requirements are discovered in the field.