Coding helps Jiangsu Express Information to achieve agile organization and agile R&D, leading the new infrastructure of smart transportation

The important task of highway management and control under the epidemic

Jiangsu Expressway Information Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as: Jiangsu Expressway Information) was established in 2002. It is a high-tech enterprise under Jiangsu Transportation Holdings. also the province's only company with a highway intelligence and intelligent building construction, renovation and maintenance of the power of science and technology enterprises . Self-developed software includes all aspects of highway management: toll system, monitoring system, license plate recognition management, real-time operation management system, etc.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, local governments and the people have continuously improved the management response efficiency requirements of expressways, the lifeblood of the people, so as to quickly initiate protection and control measures in the event of an epidemic attack, and at the same time announce the prevention and control of expressways to the people in a timely manner Management regulations provide accurate information for travel services. Jiangsu Expressway Information's "Integrated Operation Management Platform" shoulders this important task of smart transportation. 16181052713205 This puts forward higher requirements on the iterative efficiency of the Jiangsu Expressway Information System: respond to various temporary traffic control requirements that may occur at any time, and timely

R&D efficiency faces challenges

While the level of smart transportation construction in Jiangsu Province continues to improve, the repeated epidemics have also caused major challenges to the organization and management methods and R&D efficiency of the R&D team of Jiangsu Express Information:

• Cross-platform collaboration among various team functions, switching back and forth between multiple tools, collaboration efficiency needs to be improved;
• The system version release process is cumbersome and time-consuming, and the release frequency needs to be increased;
• The tools used cannot meet relevant report output such as defect statistics, demand completion rate, etc., and cannot evaluate the R&D investment and R&D output quality.

One-stop R&D management tools to improve efficiency and achieve organizational agility

Jiangsu high-speed information learned CODING advocated the concept of one-stop , the development team decided to move all the work in closed loop CODING resolved, let the team get all the work through one account. Adjust the organization, solve the problem of collaboration efficiency, build a high-performance R&D team that can adapt to agile iteration, achieve organizational agility, and quickly respond to business needs.

CODING goal management, keep the team goal consistency

When planning the long-term capacity building direction of each system, each product functional team in Jiangsu Express Information needs to maintain the transparency of its goals from top to bottom, so that the business, product, and technical teams move in the same direction. Using coding target management, HRBP of Jiangsu Express Information and the directors of various product departments began to organize and : set goals at the beginning of the month --> review goals at the end of the month --> review and summarize . In the development of OKR, the Jiangsu Express Information Team believes that CODING OKR is a target coordination and communication tool, not a performance appraisal tool, and guides team members to fill in the target correctly during the filling process:

• Energized must be quantified;
• If it is really impossible to quantify, it is necessary to describe the extent to which the goal has been achieved and the benefits it can bring.

Customize team workflow, real-time sharing of demand progress

Before encountering coding, Jiangsu Express Information was troubled by the lack of a good demand management tool to record and manage product demand, which was not conducive to the precipitation and circulation of product demand. After using CODING, the problem of missing requirements in daily work is solved, and at the same time, the smoothness of the team's demand flow and interaction is greatly improved, and the efficiency of collaboration is improved. Especially when sudden demand is encountered during the epidemic, the communication of product demand needs to be accurate and efficient.

With the help of CODING, Jiangsu Expressway Information has designed a reasonable workflow for all functional personnel in the team, and put the workbenches of all personnel in development, product, testing, etc. on CODING. What is each person’s goal and what to do What has been done and to what extent can be visually displayed.

The developer completes the requirement development task, associates the corresponding merge request and code version to the product manager synchronously. Any opinions and ideas are precipitated in the comments to prevent information gaps and omissions. Managers can see the latest progress of the project at any time, have a clear understanding of the choke points and resource bottlenecks of each plan, and control the project risk points . Even in the face of sudden changes in the epidemic, the demand can be implemented in an orderly manner.

The testing process closely follows the product rhythm and achieves a "quality" leap

The person in charge of R&D of Jiangsu Express Information said that we hope to see the test results in each iterative version and the final feedback defect related data to evaluate the R&D quality of the project. However, there are no suitable statistical tools and we can only rely on manual work. Statistics are time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Regarding the distress of the Jiangsu high-speed information test team, CODING makes test management "online" and no longer depends on local Excel . It is no longer necessary to wait for manual reports every month. Open CODING to provide automatically generated test reports. The number of test case executions, coverage, defect status distribution, etc. can be seen at a glance in a report.

In addition, unlike the test process of most companies, the testing management concept of CODING advocates that test engineers, as one of the important roles in agile organizations, should intervene to understand the original product requirements in the product requirements stage, and begin to write test cases and incorporate them accordingly. The content of iterative work. This avoids the need to understand the original product requirements from the beginning after the development is completed, and helps Jiangsu Express Information to greatly shorten the test cycle.

Automate the release process to achieve agile R&D

In the past, the development, testing and deployment of Jiangsu Hi-Speed Information were all completed in local self-built tools: local self-built GitLab, install Jenkins and use Ant or Maven to build, use Selenium and other tools for testing... the whole process requires team expenses A lot of energy is spent on the installation and routine maintenance of the tools, and it is heavily dependent on the local environment. New colleagues in the team need to pay a high learning cost to get started. The team is often overwhelmed to solve the connection response problem between different tools, and the release efficiency is low.

Jiangsu Express Information migrated the code warehouse to CODING , and then configured the trigger rules of continuous integration, product library, and continuous deployment automated assembly line. Different triggering processes were developed according to the needs of different projects. Developers only need to focus on their own business code. , No need to pay attention to the underlying tool connection, and the build and deployment can be triggered automatically after the development is completed. release efficiency has also been improved from the previous monthly release to weekly release. For urgent change needs, it can be responded to online within half a day.

Coding helps Jiangsu High-speed Information to achieve the team's "double sensitivity"

In the past 10 years, the standardization and information operation of the highway industry in China has developed rapidly. As a software provider of high-speed information and high-speed infrastructure, Jiangsu is also striving to keep pace with the times in software infrastructure capabilities and constantly break through existing resistance. uses CODING Make the R&D process, business, and management fully online, so that the team can have the dual acumen ability of'R&D agile' and'organizational agility'.

In the special period of fluctuating epidemic management and control over the past year, the Jiangsu Express Information Team has always maintained a high degree of sensitivity, kept the software infrastructure updated iteratively, provided the group team with necessary data and product capabilities in a timely manner, and helped the group team continue to face the broad masses of people. The introduction of various convenient travel functions has been affirmed by the broad masses of people.