Gen Kappa recently started to rollout the next generation of its brand new website GenKappa.com with the help of The Konsultants.
“We have made a complete make-over of the Gen Kappa web presence, with the goal to better service key visitors such as OEM design engineers, operations and maintenance technicians, purchasers, distributors, journalists and investors, among others”, says Bastian van der Vlugt, Project Manager at Gen Kappa.
The Konsultants as a partner to be counted on
The Konsultants was chosen to do a prestudy in 2018 and built a proof of concept later the same year. Development started in January of 2019 and took almost 2 years to complete. Over 100 000 hours was spent by a team that consisted of over 30 resources at its peak. Four interim releases was published before the site was ready to go public in October of 2021.
The Konsultants has been an integral part of the entire process and has been managing both the requirements and the change processes in addition for developing the front end.
“I’m very happy with our requirements and change management processes. We implemented the requirements tool PEEP from to keep everything in one place, and it gives us a good traceability: from business requirements to functional specifications, test cases and change requests. As a consequence, we’ve had very little problems with scope and requirements”, says Lena Gren, IT Project Manager for Gen Kappa.
One Team – worldwide action, local presence
Even though the project was run from the Gothenburg office in order to work closely with the customer it couldn’t have been done without resources from all over the world.
“It has truly been a ‘One Team’ approach where the team have included members from Gothenburg, Stockholm, Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Arnhem, says Benny Bengtsson, Program Manager at The Konsultants.
The work has been carried out both remotely but also by having resources from other offices in Gothenburg.
“Having resources from India working from Sweden has really helped us come closer as a team and made it possible to better understand each other. This has made it possible to solve a very complicated delivery”, Benny continues.
Collaborations
One of the main collaborations was with Octupii, and this was the start of a fruitful cooperation. The Konsultants has since become a preferred supplier for Octupii and this has resulted in new business opportunities arising.
Gen Kappa and The Konsultants have a longstanding relationship. The previous version of GenKappa.com was developed by The Konsultants from 2009 to 2012 and has been maintained by a team in the Gothenburg office and India since, a trust that has been prolonged for the new site where The Konsultants will be responsible for the hosting of the site.
The site
The website is made up of 13 sites, each consisting of approximately 2200 pages, to cover all regions and languages. 9 sites have been published so far and are already serving 150 000 page views daily. The remaining sites will be rolled out during 2022. The team responsible for the rollout and the maintenance will consist of around 15 resources.
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