Problem
Continue in our lab series. The first version of GeoFood is shipped to the app store in Sept, and it is a big hit with the iphone users. The android version is still in development due to technical challenges. With millions of download, the engineering team has grown to 100 engineers working on different versions of products. And the original group members are now all promoted to development managers.
Task
Your boss, the VP of engineering, has asked all the development managers (you guys) to come up with proposals for reengineering to improve on the current development processes and methods of development and deployment. As a team, write a proposal on how you will perform the reengineering and improvement of various things within the company. Here is a list of current pain points:
A. First version of GeoFood is 3 months late.
B. First version of GeoFood can only support one platform (iphone) instead of various mobile platforms as originally planned.
C. Engineering team is low in morale.
D. Some UI requirements come to GeoFood is too late and cannot be implemented in the first version.
E. The development team is always yelling at the QA team.
F. There are too many meetings in general.
G. Some developers complain about not learning new things such as new open source packages, build method, etc.
H. Only one person knows how to build and deploy the product to the app store.