Overview
The project involves creating an online delivery service application called BoDo Delivery for the company BoDo, which provides fast and free delivery of groceries and everyday goods to customers in Tbilisi and soon in Tallinn, Riga, and Warsaw. The app’s unique selling point is its ability to deliver products to customers within 10-15 minutes or by the time they need them, thanks to the company’s stores being located in every district.
Challenges
The BoDo Delivery project faced several challenges, including ensuring seamless integration between the web application and backend systems, managing high traffic volume, accurate tracking and delivery management, meeting customer expectations, dealing with market-specific challenges, and ensuring application security. The project required the team to perform various testing activities, such as backend and frontend testing, end-to-end testing, and non-functional testing activities like load and performance testing. The team also conducted daily scrum meetings and used JIRA for bug tracking, reporting, and management. BoDo Delivery targets the United Kingdom market and promises fast and free delivery of groceries and everyday goods to customers within 10-15 minutes or by the time they need them.
Solutions & Strategy
The solutions and strategies for the BoDo Delivery project included adopting an agile development approach with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) techniques to ensure seamless integration between the web application and backend systems. The team conducted load and performance testing to manage high traffic volume and incorporated a real-time tracking system and automated delivery management tools to ensure accurate tracking and delivery management. They prioritized user experience (UX) and conducted usability testing to meet customer expectations and implemented a comprehensive security strategy to ensure application security. To deal with market-specific challenges, they conducted research on the United Kingdom market and implemented a multi-lingual interface to cater to users who speak languages other than English. The team collaborated and prioritized communication, testing, and feedback to ensure successful project delivery.
Conclusion
The BoDo Delivery project aimed to provide fast and free delivery of groceries and everyday goods to customers in the United Kingdom. The team faced challenges in seamless integration, high traffic volume management, accurate tracking and delivery management, customer expectations, market-specific challenges, and application security. To overcome these challenges, the team adopted an agile development approach, conducted load testing, incorporated a real-time tracking system, prioritized UX and usability testing, implemented a comprehensive security strategy, and conducted market research. Through collaboration, communication, testing, and feedback, the team successfully delivered the project.
