Insights and experiences from developing a product following lean software principles

1. myOnboarding
Insights & Learnings
Haufe TechDay | 20.03.2018 | Marco Seifried, Karsten Gaebert

2. 1What is myOnboarding

3. As a company I want to make
sure I give employees the
best start they can have to
make them stay, get them
on board as fast as possible
and keep them engaged in
the longer run.
Insight
Haufe-Survey 02-04/2017 – 227 HR-Responsibles: 39% Comp. > 500 employees, 42% Comp. 51 - 500 employees,
18% Comp. < 50 employees

4. 1st Feature Set:
Inform
relevant information
at the right time
Outlook:
More interaction
Team integration
Chat bot
Feedback possibilties

5. Content Feed Profile Page Content View

6. Gamification: Challenges EventsChallenges
Challenges & Content Types

7. Backend CMS System
Dashboard Tags to match content to employee
Personalization:
Display relevant content at the
right time
Backend CMS System
Dashboard Tags to match content to employee
Personalization:
Display relevant content at the
right time

8. 2Setup

9. How to be effective & fast?
Go To
Market
Roles
Product
Vision
Guiding
Principles
Design

10. Product, Market, Customers
• Understand the problem you’re trying to solve
• Product KPIs
• Target market
-> Key account? Mass market?
-> Start with app stores
• Must haves & Wows
• Integration in HCP product portfolio
• New product, lots of unknowns.
-> test in house
-> pilot customers
-> scale getting feedback
-> include feedback in further development
-> Product Manager, Product Owner are key
Go To
Market
Product
Vision

11. myOnboarding is the market leading solution for Onboarding. It focuses on the employee
as the key driving factor for entrepreneural success.
myOnboarding offers the employer the possiblity, to give the employee a warm welcome
and valued feeling and enables new employees to deliver maximum performance from
their first day at the new job.
With the solution we tackle in first stance the problem of „psychological safety“, which is
one of biggest driver for team and personal performance. The solution will reduce
uncertainty on the side of the new employee, helps therefore the company to reduce
flucutation in the first months and therefore strenghtens productivity from the first day.
Vision

12. Rapid Application Development, Lean Software Principles
• No waste
-> User story should describe clear business value,
ideally measurable
• Deliver fast
-> helps to adapt in small cycles
-> Feature, Design, Implementation, CI/CD, Feedback
• Optimize the whole
-> optimize the cycle, not just one part
-> prerequisite: Roles, communication, transparency
• Learn & adapt
Guiding Principles

13. Team interaction & Motivation
• Clear roles
-> Describe, discuss. Are there overlaps?
-> PM, PO, Designer, Developer
-> ‚Play‘ it through
-> Roles are somewhat fluid: Review & adapt
• People are key
• Rapid decision making
• Have goals
-> Fix release dates
-> Showcase on HR fair
-> checkpoints for team & product
PeopleRoles
Rufus Raghunath, Thoughtworks

14. 3Technology and Insights

15. validate
deliver
Product Delivery
change

16. myOnboarding Overview
Backend
Service
Content
Service
• Content management
• Tenants
• Employees
• Administrators
• Settings
• Branding
• APIs (App, 3rd Party)
• Authentication
• Transformations
• MeteorJS
• React• Express.js
• Passport
• JSON Web Tokens
• MongoDB
• iOS
• Android
• React Native
Database
Service

17. Toolchain
Azure
• Kubernetes + ACS Engine + VMs
• Docker Container Registry
• Blob Storages (media files, apps, packages)
Visual Studio Team Services
• Git Repositories
• Pipelines
• Backlog + Wiki
Bitrise
• Mobile CI & Delivery

18. Build & Delivery
Backend
Service
Content
Service
Docker build & push to
Azure Container Registry
Package & push
to helm registry
Deploy versioned
packages/ application
K8s Namespaces
V 1.3
Database
Service

19. Infrastructure - Evolution
Development
Integration
Customer 1
Customer 2
Development
Integration
Production
Customer PoC

20. Content Service – Evolution
Version 0.1
• Keystone JS
• Perfect to get started
• Published first Apps
• Small featureset
• Customizing very time
consuming
• Tightly coupled to
database schema

21. Content Service – Evolution
Release 1
• Meteor JS
• React as UI framework
• 100% customizable
(UI + database)
• All MVP features
implemented
• Released as Version 1 to
pilot customers

24. Go into production!

25. Content Service – Evolution
Product Version
• Defined Feature Set
• I18n
• Material Design
• Refactorings:
• Components
• Configuration
• Themes
Coming next
• Haufe Design

29. Product Delivery
Do
• Focus on delivery
• Automate the release process
• Implement, verify and refactor
Avoid
• Skipping verification loop
• Over-engineering
Validate
Deliver
Change

30. Questions?