13.12.2013 Sami Svärd

Steeri CloudSW results

Main results for Steeri

1) Successful agile-lean transformation2) New tools in pilot phase for meeting scheduling and collaboration with mobile device and cloud service3) Framework & pilot for multi-channel communication in the cloud

Work week planningA tool developed that enables a software developer to manage and plan actual workload from several simultaneous projects. Tool is integrated with Agilefant.org and Salesforce.com calendar to get planned activities and free time remaining each week.

1 Successful agile-lean transformation of an SME

• New model for leading and managing, • New project delivery method, and • Tools studied, piloted and deployed to support new ways of

working• Lean transformation as a whole started, continuous improvements

ongoing in several areas

Our turnover more than doubled during the program Majority of our growth replaced previously

off-shored / near-shored work so far cumulative~2,5..3M€ reduction on “imported work” (11/2013)

Growth and profitability increase enabled us to raise our investments on product development

New management model and tool to improve Steeri’s business by linking the strategic company-level goals with day-to-day tasks

Scrum was scaled into multi-project environment where teams are responsible for delivering work to several Product Owners. Teams were able to transform from a chaos into constantly delivering results in each Sprint.

2 Research for meeting scheduling and collaboration - mobile devices and cloud services co-operating

• Promising research and pilot development done with Aalto for meeting scheduling and collaboration using mobile devices and shared cloud service– Architecture study & pilot implementation done– Service design for user perspective

• Work ongoing to create commercial products within iSteer SaaS– Integration with Salesforce.com

• New collaboration, for example in Finncloud2 ecosystem

3) Framework & pilot for multi-channel communication in the cloud

• A framework for self-learning multi-channel communication has been developed with JYU.

• Enabling communication that is based on abstract messages, formal domain descriptions, formal communication channel descriptions and context-aware computing.

• Four papers published and one to published.• Steeri is prototyping the solutions for

managing and coordinating multichannel communication and the service for multichannel message sending and retrieval

To become the ground for iSteer Dialog version 3

Steeri OyTammasaarenkatu 5

00180 HelsinkiTel. 010 217 6430Fax. 010 217 6420

Email: info@steeri.fiwww.steeri.fi