Issue
The client is an energy company whose retail business was expanding faster than its manual processes could support.
Rapid retail growth outpaced the client's largely manual processes:
- To stay competitive, the business needed to automate ordering, data processing, pricing, quoting, and contracting.
- The client had deep retail knowledge but lacked the internal analysis capacity to define business requirements and build an RFP.
- Without automation, growth would stall under manual workload.
Solution
MidDel supplied one versatile resource across the Agile build:
- Helped create the user stories that drove Agile development.
- Decomposed retail products into pricing components modeled as formulas in the new system.
- Took on testing to ensure the code met design specifications.
Result
Blending business analysis and testing kept sprint deliverables on time and let the client redeploy temporary staff to other projects.
“Your consultant has been a vital part of this effort and has been a pleasure to work with. He takes ownership of his responsibilities, collaborates well, adjusts to changes in the work-plan, documents his activities thoroughly and displays clear thinking. We are glad to have him as part of the team.”
Director, Technology and Vendor Management
Energy Company
Key Takeaways
- In energy Agile builds, role silos are the hidden schedule risk. Combining business analysis with test ownership removed the analyst-to-QA handoff that stalls sprints - and let the client redeploy temporary staff to other work.
- Model retail products as reusable proformas with components and pricing formulas, not one-off configurations. Encoding the pricing logic once turns each new product into a variation rather than a rebuild - a durable pattern for any retail energy system.
Ready to do the same?
Building a retail energy platform on an Agile timeline? MidDel brings the energy-domain business analysis and testing that keep sprints on track. Let's talk.
