We have just released our most recent site, Five Fwd, for Channel 5. We have been working closely with Five for the past few months, developing the new site from scratch, which is the new online home of their highly popular Gadget Show.
Five wanted to create a site where people could catch recent broadcasts from the TV show, get more details about the features on the show, and explore a large collection of custom video content, produced exclusively for the web. As peoples' viewing habits change, traditional TV stations are going to be judged as much by their online presence as by their more traditional broadcasts. The goal was to extend the boundaries of the TV show into the web sphere. But the site goes beyond just putting videos online. It also contains a rich selection of the best gadgets featured in the TV show, allowing visitors to select the ones they want, and to get an up to date comparisons of the cheapest prices for any of the coolest gadgets on the show.
The project relied heavily on the our agile approach using Scrum and XP techniques, which we followed right the way though the development. We were able to send a team to work side by side with the producers at Five. With the client fully on board with the agile process, it really started to shine! Like any projects there were some hiccups along the way, causing scope to be modified, redesigns to take place, but our approach helped us handle all of these.
We sat down with our product owner, discussed the changes to the stories we had, presented options, and made the choices and tradeoffs available to him clear. Having such clear options presented to him made the choices almost easy to make. The result was, if we do say so ourselves, really cool. The site launched on time, ready to be promoted on the TV broadcast, and comfortably surfed over the corresponding wave of traffic. Of course we also maintained our commitment to the highest possible standards of coding, and even with the expected myriad of changes coming though in the few days before launch, we maintained 100% test coverage.
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