NIS AG has introduced a new web solution based on GE's Geospatial Server and Open Source technology. From the very beginning, the engineering team designed and developed the solution around four key principles, ensuring maximum business value for its end-users. In the presentation, Erwin Saegesser commented on their key principles and why they were instrumental to the project’s success. Using examples and live presentations, he further commented on value driven and agile development, key lessons learned, best practices and how customers were engaged in the process. The presentation is targeted at customers and partners who want to enable information sharing rather than giving end-users meaningless data together with an infinite number of complex tools.

1. Turning data into information
erwin.saegesser@nis.ch

2. Presentation is courtesy of NIS AG -
Switzerland. All rights reserved
erwin.saegesser@nis.ch

3. journey

4. about me
out us
nis ag – Switzerland
since 1996
software and service solutions

5. nis ag – serving our utilities
EKS
EBM IBW EWZ EN Uster
EBL
AEN
AEK AEW EKZ
EUG SAK
CKW
BKW EWS
EWA
Swisscom AKONIS
EW Flims
Energie Thun
EWZ-GR
SES
SES

6. where it started
team and customers

7. speed …

8. update technology …
but … for whom?

9. stop! gaps!

10. something to … play with

11. guiding principles

12. focus
1

13. business value

14. ’’stronger’’ business value

15. street view?
yes sure!

16. street view? oh, no sorry …

17. pairwise
requirements

18. 2design
enduser centric

19. why notjust copying
Google ?
TM

20. complex data
object relations
map worlds
plot layouts
customer specific

21. other vendors
space for improvements

22. another example
space for improvements

23. another example
space for improvements

24. anticipation
map values to roles

25. observe and
challenge

26. 45%
’’simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication’’ – Steve Jobs

27. some is given

28. no scales
avoid popups
fulltext search - use keywords
avoid options - use defaults
use smart attribut fields
RESTful based architecture
keep it simple

29. 3
technology
reuse code

30. integration , caching,
scalability and printing
General Electric
geo spatial server
integration platform

31. avoid new errors and stay
independent
OS community
Camptocamp
Swisstopo
openlayers
extjs
geoext
grails

32. wms versus wmts
avoid unqualified services

33. caching
’’top ten’’ layers
don’t cache everything
consider different hosts
use simultaneous population

34. the cloud …
will become a commodity

35. automate
testing
minimal documentation
eclipse/mdt
hudson
junit
jmeter
build reference systems

36. 4
process framework

37. Scrum
eXtrem Programming

38. incremental and
… iterative

39. your level ?
NOKIA test

40. things to remember

41. 1. focus
2. enduser centric design
3. reuse code
4. process framework

42. keep it simple

43. keep it simple

44. thank you !

45. credits
agilemanifesto.org
scrum.com
agileproductdesign.com
scrum.jeffsutherland.com
jeffsutherland.com/nokiatest.pdf
Photos courtesy of …
nasaimages.org
flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress
flickr.com
ideo.com/people/tom-kelley

46. about me
out
erwin.saegesser@nis.ch
certified scrum master
nis ag - Switzerland