Our Has­lach site re­cent­ly hos­ted a th­ree day de­ve­lo­per work­shop — a gre­at op­por­tu­ni­ty to dive into va­rious are­as of soft­ware de­ve­lo­p­ment while get­ting to know the team better.

In­sights into SAP Pro­jects and Com­plex To­pic Areas

Du­ring the work­shop, I took part in se­ve­ral mee­tings with our SAP team. The wide ran­ge of to­pics hel­ped me gain a much clea­rer pic­tu­re of the team’s re­spon­si­bi­li­ties and how the dif­fe­rent are­as work tog­e­ther.
One par­ti­cu­lar­ly in­te­res­t­ing pro­ject, which is clo­se to com­ple­ti­on, is CMD – “Ma­na­ge Data.”
TecCMD is used to cen­tral­ly pro­vi­de pri­cing, avai­la­bi­li­ty, and in­ven­to­ry in­for­ma­ti­on for purcha­sers on our platform.

A Func­tion Mo­du­le Crea­ted by AI

A real high­light was a mee­ting whe­re we de­ve­lo­ped an en­ti­re func­tion mo­du­le using AI for the very first time.
The mo­du­le checks whe­ther the busi­ness ru­les in TXML files — the trans­port mes­sa­ges ex­ch­an­ged bet­ween sup­pli­ers and cus­to­mers — are be­ing fol­lo­wed.
It was fa­sci­na­ting to see the AI sug­gest a com­ple­te­ly new ap­proach that no one in the team had used be­fo­re. A real glim­pse into the fu­ture of soft­ware development.

Agi­le Pro­ces­ses and Soft­ware Re­lease Planning

I also gai­ned in­sight into the or­ga­niza­tio­nal side of de­ve­lo­p­ment: at­ten­ding a sprint plan­ning ses­si­on and lear­ning how de­cis­i­ons are made re­gar­ding re­lease ti­ming, patch struc­tures, and ver­si­on ma­nage­ment. This gave me a much bet­ter un­der­stan­ding of how many stra­te­gic con­side­ra­ti­ons go into de­li­ve­ring clean, sta­ble software.

Per­for­mance Test­ing of Our AI Application

We also put our AI ap­pli­ca­ti­on th­rough a run­time test, ana­ly­zing how pro­ces­sing time sca­les with in­cre­asing or­der vo­lu­me — an im­portant step to en­su­re per­for­mance and sta­bi­li­ty be­fo­re mo­ving toward broa­der rollout.

Team Evening & Tisch­ki­cker Finale