Agile Buddy: AI power for better teamwork in the IT department
Thanks to a new AI-powered team member, the work of the IT department of a major automobile manufacturer is faster, more precise and lead to highest quality standard outcomes.
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The challenge
Save time, increase quality and speed up feature implementations
The scenario
Creating and maintaining countless lines of code
From simulating new vehicles, to infotainment, to streamlining the supply chain: The demand for software at car manufacturers is enormous. Every day, countless developers work on new solutions or maintain and improve existing ones. Precise planning and seamless collaboration between the various parties involved are essential for an effective Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This entails a number of additional organisational tasks for employees apart from coding. To reduce these, we have developed an AI-powered solution for a major automobile manufacturer.
The solution
Improving collaboration and processes with AI
The Agile Buddy, an advanced AI assistant, is now optimising collaboration between developers of the automotive company and supporting them in a variety of ways so that they can fully focus on their core task of coding.
Writing of user stories
The Agile Buddy automates the creation of detailed user stories, ensuring clarity and completeness. The assistant automatically generates acceptance criteria based on predefined templates and user inputs. It ensures user stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) before proceeding, reducing the risk of incomplete requirements.
Sprint planning
Agile Buddy supports sprint planning by breaking down user stories into actionable subtasks. To do this, it supports effort estimation using historical data and machine learning algorithms.
Organising teamwork
The Agile Buddy identifies the most suitable team members for specific tasks based on their skills and workload. In addition, it monitors the progress of tasks and provides real-time updates to stakeholders.
How we did it
A clear understanding of context and process
The experts at Open Reply and Riverland Reply have skillfully combined various technologies to provide all these functionalities of the Agile Buddy. For example, the chain of thought prompting – a technique in which the language model is encouraged to explain its thought processes step by step in order to better solve complex tasks – in combination with a hybrid RAG approach that uses function calling to draw on other knowledge sources enables the comprehensible and contextual processing of data.
The function calling was supplemented by the ReAct (Reasoning and Acting) framework . While the ability of large language models (LLM) to draw conclusions and to act are otherwise only treated separately, this concept combines both aspects in one system to make it possible to directly perform actions on the project management software tools in use without any human intervention.
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The results
Faster and more precise
The Agile Buddy has become an important team member and has significantly improved the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This has brought many benefits to our customer:
52% reduction in time spent on user story refinements through more efficient processes and fewer redundant tasks
Clearer and more complete user stories, simplifying development of new and maintaining existing code
Faster onboarding of new team members thanks to automated project management
Reduction of redundant tasks and improved implementation dependency control among the teams
Riverland Reply is specialized in consulting end-to-end customer-oriented solutions and strategies. In addition, Riverland Reply supports its customers in strategic IT decisions, implementation of defined solutions and production execution. The company combines in-depth knowledge of digital Customer Experience with the full potential of cloud native technologies. This expertise allows Riverland Reply to remove the barriers between a product-based technology and a full custom implementation. Knowing that Customer Experience in the digital era must be highly flexible to be adapted to different industries, Riverland Reply advises clients in automotive, transportation, logistics and finance industry. The strong partnership and close collaboration with Oracle made Riverland Reply the experts of Oracle’s Customer Experience products.
Open Reply
Open Reply is a Reply Group company specialising in digital transformation, mobile solutions and networked platforms. We offer cross-sector consulting services, conception, creation as well as the development of solutions based on mobile technologies with the aim of sustainably strengthening the market position through a state-of-the-art digital experience.