K2 and Sword Insurance Seminar with Marketform - Alfred and the Holy Grail

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Alfred and the Holy Grail Murray Macdonald and Daniel Blackwell

Transcript of K2 and Sword Insurance Seminar with Marketform - Alfred and the Holy Grail

Alfred and the Holy Grail

Murray Macdonald and Daniel Blackwell

Agenda

• Introduction

• Business requirements

• Project

• Solution

Marketform

• 153 Employees - 3 Developers

• £160M Premium

• Underwrite 13 classes of business

• Member of Great American Insurance Group

• Operate within Lloyd’s insurance market

3

Business requirements

• Business Process

– Consistent underwriting process

• Application

– Assist the users through the business process

– Visibility of tasks and workflows

– Single system

– MI reporting

4

Project

• Dependencies

– Documented business process

– Desire to change

– Senior management support

• Parallel development

• Phased deployment

• Delivered on time and within budget

• Regular updates

5

Solution

• Workflows

– 30 K2 Workflows

– 14 K2 SmartObjects

– Over 20,000 possible paths

– Fully automated test suite

– 6 Web service trigger events

• Client

– WPF

– 100 Screens

– 4 Different data sources

6

Alfred

• Great user experience

– Good looks

– Simplicity

– Ease of use

• Key Features

– Task list

– Single system

– Workflow visibility

– Reporting

Alfred

Summary

• Many factors impact success

• User experience matters

• You can do this too!

Contact Info

• Murray Macdonald

@thek2guy

[email protected]

• Daniel Blackwell

@thekanbandan

[email protected]

#marketform , #ALFRED