John Wiley and Sons is a multinational publishing company that needed to manage information about their journal products. Our responsibility was mostly process management, with scope creep threatening to extend the effort far beyond a reasonable time frame. We introduced iterative development to bring small releases quickly to production.



We worked with two in-house developers: utilizing scrums, UML modeling, and code reviews to construct the system. We were also responsible for building and maintaining the development and QA environments, including several Linux blades and a DB2 database.



The project was successfully deployed to a AS400 Linux partition after a tuning effort when slow database queries were replaced with materialized views and a Lucene search index.