Preparations

We are delighted to have you on board for an exciting journey! As soon as the contract is signed, one of our Project Managers will contact you to initiate the onboarding process and prepare for the first kick-off meeting.

During our project kick-off meeting, we will get to know each other, and outline the purpose, goals, and plan of the project. This meeting will also provide an opportunity for all team members to ask questions and clarify the next steps.

Let's work together to ensure a successful project launch!

Mobilize your team

It is important to identify specific roles and responsibilities for your project. Depending on how big your company is, one person can fulfil several roles:

Project Manager Planning and project oversight

UX Designer Design user experiences via design prototyping

Frontend Engineer

Develop visual and interactive elements

Backend Engineer

Build application business logic, server scripts and APIs

Backend engineer

Build application business logic, server scripts and APIs

System Architect Analyze and design IT components

QA & Testing

Testing and validating the functionality developed

Our FactFinder team includes:

Project Manager

Planning, point of contact and project oversight

Technical Consultant Support around the topic of integration

Business Consultant

Data feed analysis, basic configuration, and training of users

Does your team want to get more familiar with FactFinder? Then take a look at the videos from our Training Week Training Videos English, have a look at our FactFinder documentation to dive deeper into the technology or jump to the chapter on Integration

Your first meeting with FactFinder

In our kick-off meeting with all relevant project participants, we define success and next steps. We clarify whether there is already a go-live date and which dependencies we should consider in the project planning.

Furthermore, we highlight the factors that are crucial for a successful project with FactFinder and address the following:

  • The size of your data feed

  • Provision of data feed (URL or SFTP)

  • Keeping data up to date: in addition to full imports, you have the possibility of delta updates

  • The number of search requests you have per month

  • The module scope for the go-live

  • Contact person for the FactFinder credentials

  • Weekly meetings (around 30 min – 1 hour): to ensure project progress and success, we recommend weekly meetings with the project team.