Fleet Response provides claims management, accident management, driver safety training, subrogation, and other services to companies that self-insure their vehicle fleets.
Clients engage with Fleet Response’s services via a flagship portal—a one-stop dashboard for claims management and training—and equally important, a sales tool for Fleet Response’s business development team to showcase their core promise of flexibility, visibility, and accountability.
As the client portal aged and its feature set ballooned, Fleet Response joined with Netrix to design and build a new, extensible and scalable portal that delivers on Fleet Response’s promises to its clients.
On the shoulders of our Netrix Way delivery methodology, the blended delivery team of Netrix and Fleet Response shipped on time and within budget, provided stakeholders frequent demos and opportunities for feedback, and adjusted seamlessly to the new scope and inevitable project curveballs.
Fleet Response and Netrix’s partnership delivered more than a mere product release; together, we transformed our client’s development culture into a collaborative, transparent, and measurable partnership between IT and business stakeholders.
Netrix and Fleet Response met at a CIO Visions networking event, where Fleet Response shared a desire to rebuild their Fleet Suite client portal.
Amid rapid business growth and bottlenecked by a development team stretched thin, Fleet Response sought more than a vendor to rebuild their portal: they came to CIO Visions searching for partners who could re-platform their product, evolve their DevOps pipelines, and grow their team simultaneously
The ideal partner would:
Projects run The Netrix Way start with a Project Springboard, an investment that Netrix makes, the purpose of which is to recommend a budget, timeline, and team size for the project.
Building the backlog
We begin by meeting with business and IT stakeholders to understand and document solution requirements, focusing on the business value of each feature set and any major technical shortcomings of the current solution.
Together, we reviewed Fleet Suite and recorded requirements encompassing its current functionality and desired enhancements. Business stakeholders painted a compelling vision of a Fleet Suite vNext that could be effortlessly extended with new client dashboards and KPIs by a business stakeholder—not a development team— highlighting the foundational requirement for Fleet Suite vNext to sit atop a flexible analytics platform.
The technical teams responsible for maintaining and enhancing Fleet Suite added valuable commentary on challenges surrounding its architecture and maintenance routines, helping us narrow the field of potential core platforms for Fleet Suite vNext and shedding light on inefficiencies in Fleet Response’s DevOps processes.
Prioritizing for an MVP
Our springboard produced a product backlog detailed enough for business stakeholders to prioritize and for Netrix architects to size. Netrix reviewed the backlog with the same stakeholders from the springboard, checking for accuracy and plotting major milestones around features we could regularly release to Fleet Response’s sales team to solicit client feedback.
We presented the sized and prioritized backlog to Fleet Response, complete with our recommendations for:
A minimal viable product (“MVP”) scope
Budget and timeline
High-level architecture design
Team construction, including an option for a blended Fleet Response + Netrix team
The project springboard was Netrix’s investment to scope the engagement and learn about our client’s business, Fleet Response embraced the opportunity to learn what it’s like to work with Netrix.
They decided to move forward, and Fleet Suite vNext development broke ground as a Netrix Way project.
The blended team gelled under increased communication and a consistent process, rendering each requirement in the product backlog traceable from inception to implementation to deployment. The Netrix Way engrained a level of transparency and process maturity to Fleet Suite vNext’s development.
Fleet Suite vNext was aptly renamed Visibility and launched as a scalable, extensible, and performant cloud web app to client and business acclaim.
The effect was more widespread, however, and releasing Visibility marked the beginning of a foundational transformation. Fleet Response reorganized its other development teams around agile workloads, injecting The Netrix Way into its core culture.
“Netrix has helped us improve both our technological offerings to our clients and the way we approach development now and in the future.” Allison Lanzilotta, Executive Vice President.
Business stakeholders gained visibility and influence in product timelines, while development teams gained valuable focus time without the interruption of unexpected scope creep.
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