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•  Walking Tree provides Design, Development, QA, Maintenance and Support, Consulting, Training and Skill Augmentation services around Ext JS, Sencha Touch, Angular JS, Xamarin, Native Android, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Pentaho, etc. Walking Tree acts as a product engineering team of the customers across the globe and delivers end-to-end products / solutions to ensure "Great Experience".

•  Some of the other reasons you might know us

•  Sencha Tutorials

•  Ext JS component eStores

•  Blogs

About Walking Tree

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•  Service Environment - Stating the Obvious!

•  Challenges we have seen

•  Processes

•  Tools

•  Aligning People

Agenda

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Service Environment : Stating the Obvious!

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Challenges We have seen …

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1.  Skill Gap among team members

2.  Misaligned / Apathetic Customer Expectations

3.  Communication and Emotional Issues

4.  Sencha Version Upgrades

5.  Other Key Challenges


•  Ext JS is not just another extension of your regular HTML file

•  Lack of good understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript •  Lack of usage of the overall ecosystem provided by Sencha

•  Mixing up Bootstrap, jQuery and other codes with Ext JS without understanding Ext JS

•  Lack of good Problem Solving Skills among the involved developers

•  Just Do It Attitude of product owners and developers

Skill Gap Among Team Members

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•  Comparing jQuery, Angular JS, etc features and expecting Ext JS to

cover at least all the stuff existing in these libraries

•  Comparing Sencha Touch with Native SDKs and Native Cross

Platforms frameworks like Xamarin

•  In terms of efforts required as well as the feasibility

•  Vague Performance Goals

•  Expecting the developers to be an expert in all the areas and phases

of the delivery

•  Intolerance for any bug on a given device even though it may be

working on most of the commonly used devices

Misaligned Customer Expectations

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•  Sencha Version Upgrade

•  Different versions needed different style of programming •  Cost of migrating or working with different version in same solution became high

•  Communication and Emotional Issues

•  Mismatch in contract between the frontend and backend integration points

•  Biased views and extreme remarks •  Feasibility being linked with capability

•  Ignorance of test automation and continuous testing •  Lack of end-to-end test Environment Setup •  Lack of Ext JS developers across the India

Other Challenges

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Processes We Follow!

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Process : Value Driven Agile Methodology

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Where do we to differentiate?

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UI / UX Designer Software Architects

Project 1 Project 2 Project n Project 3


Differentiation Through - Quality Assurance

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Unit Testing

Integration Testing

Developers Quality Analyst

System Testing

Test Automation

Acceptance Support

Provide test support to customer and incorporate any feedback!


Tools & Resources

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Tools : UI / UX

15 Colorzilla

Sencha Architect

Picto


Tools : Coding, Debugging and Deployment

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Chrome browser and developer tools Sencha App Inspector for Chrome

Sencha Command


Tools : Reusable Components

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http://www.walkingtree.in/index.php/store/sencha-extjs-4-x

https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=ExtJS&ref=searchresults&s=forks&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93


Tools : Collaboration

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Tools : Support and Maintenance

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Resources - for the Right Skill

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Sencha Training : The journey over 4-5 days enables you to build enterprise level web / mobile applications!

Sencha Tutorials : A self-paced learning tools, which enables you to learn various concepts in / around Sencha and allows you to play with the code by highlighting the involved codes

Blogs ●  https://www.sencha.com/blog/ ●  http://blogs.walkingtree.in/category/sencha-extjs/ ●  http://blogs.walkingtree.in/category/sencha-touch/

●  http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/6.0/ ●  https://fiddle.sencha.com/#home


Resources : Support

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Feature Requests Premium Help Community Discussions Nightly Build

Complex Custom Components

Architecture, Design and Code Review Development Handholding Skilled Staff

Augmentation

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Resources : Custom Training


Thank you!

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