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Copyright © Walking Tree Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.Copyright © Walking Tree Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.
Alok Ranjan
COO & Co-Founder @
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•  Walking Tree provides Design, Development, QA, Maintenance and
Support, Consulting, Training and Skill Augmentation services around Ext JS,
Sencha Touch, Angular JS, Xamarin, Native Android, MongoDB, Cassandra,
Hadoop, Pentaho, etc. Walking Tree acts as a product engineering team of
the customers across the globe and delivers end-to-end products / solutions
to ensure "Great Experience".
•  Some of the other reasons you might know us
•  Sencha Tutorials
•  Ext JS component eStores
•  Blogs
About Walking Tree
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•  Service Environment - Stating the Obvious!
•  Challenges we have seen
•  Processes
•  Tools
•  Aligning People
Agenda
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Service Environment : Stating the
Obvious!
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Challenges We have seen …
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1.  Skill Gap among team members
2.  Misaligned / Apathetic Customer Expectations
3.  Communication and Emotional Issues
4.  Sencha Version Upgrades
5.  Other Key Challenges

•  Ext JS is not just another extension of your regular HTML file
•  Lack of good understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript
•  Lack of usage of the overall ecosystem provided by Sencha
•  Mixing up Bootstrap, jQuery and other codes with Ext JS without
understanding Ext JS
•  Lack of good Problem Solving Skills among the involved
developers
•  Just Do It Attitude of product owners and developers
Skill Gap Among Team Members
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•  Comparing jQuery, Angular JS, etc features and expecting Ext JS to
cover at least all the stuff existing in these libraries
•  Comparing Sencha Touch with Native SDKs and Native Cross
Platforms frameworks like Xamarin
•  In terms of efforts required as well as the feasibility
•  Vague Performance Goals
•  Expecting the developers to be an expert in all the areas and phases
of the delivery
•  Intolerance for any bug on a given device even though it may be
working on most of the commonly used devices
Misaligned Customer Expectations
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•  Sencha Version Upgrade
•  Different versions needed different style of programming
•  Cost of migrating or working with different version in same solution became high
•  Communication and Emotional Issues
•  Mismatch in contract between the frontend and backend integration points
•  Biased views and extreme remarks
•  Feasibility being linked with capability
•  Ignorance of test automation and continuous testing
•  Lack of end-to-end test Environment Setup
•  Lack of Ext JS developers across the India
Other Challenges
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Processes We Follow!
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Process : Value Driven Agile Methodology
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Source : http://www.veriqual.com/images/agileProcessDiagram.jpg

Where do we to differentiate?
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UI / UX Designer Software Architects
Project 1 Project 2 Project nProject 3

Differentiation Through - Quality Assurance
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Unit Testing
Integration Testing
Developers Quality Analyst
System Testing
Test Automation
Acceptance Support
Provide test support to customer
and incorporate any feedback!

Tools & Resources
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Tools : UI / UX
Colorzilla
Sencha Architect
Picto

Tools : Coding, Debugging and Deployment
Chrome browser and developer tools Sencha App Inspector for Chrome
Sencha Command

Tools : Reusable Components
http://www.walkingtree.in/index.php/store/sencha-extjs-4-x
https://github.com/search?
o=desc&q=ExtJS&ref=searchresults&s=forks&type=Reposit
ories&utf8=%E2%9C%93

Tools : Collaboration
Hangout / Skype / Gotomeeting

Tools : Support and Maintenance

Resources - for the Right Skill
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Sencha Training : The journey over 4-5 days
enables you to build enterprise level web /
mobile applications!
Sencha Tutorials : A self-paced learning tools,
which enables you to learn various concepts in /
around Sencha and allows you to play with the
code by highlighting the involved codes
Blogs
●  https://www.sencha.com/blog/
●  http://blogs.walkingtree.in/category/sencha-extjs/
●  http://blogs.walkingtree.in/category/sencha-touch/
●  http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/6.0/
●  https://fiddle.sencha.com/#home

Resources : Support
Feature Requests Premium Help Community Discussions Nightly Build
Complex Custom
Components
Architecture, Design
and Code Review
Development Handholding
Skilled Staff
Augmentation

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Email : training@walkingtree.in
Phone : +91 9581400033
Coding Guidelines for Ext JS Developers
- 28th Nov – 8-hours online training
40% Off
for Sencha Roadshow Attendee
Resources : Custom Training

Thank you!
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Email : alok.ranjan@walkingtree.in
Phone : +91 7680 824111
Twitter : @wtcalok

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