Updated timelines for Omni Features
Sharing this document to inform that some of the features Omni team is working on are a little behind schedule. We understand that as our customers you might have planned your future plans on these features in your Omni software. We apologize for the delay.
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Please do not hesitate to contact the support team if you have any questions about the new timelines, any other details.
Team related reasons
Campus Hiring
Massive effort by the Development team and QA team went into campus hiring. In taking multiple online interviews, campus visits etc. Campus hiring got closed recently.
New development team
New Joinees of last year joined our dev team around July, team herachiry got changed.
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Poor timeline estimation as new developers take more time learning the code base
More back and forth in Dev review, Strict-er code review in initial days.
More time in QA, as more small small issues. And New QAs themselves.
Difficulty in managing who is doing what, at what time. I.e Lesser visibility
Specific feature related reasons
Multiple Units of Measure UOM and Handling, Eaches and Packs
Previously we had said that we will be able to deliver the UOM feature by ~mid of October.
We have been working on the UOM feature since around August 6th.
Reasons for delay
Poor Scoping on Bulk Break Part
Bulk break functionalities were not planned in depth when we communicated the timelines. Edge cases were not thrashed out for some scenarios like expiry etc. When we did that part of planning we realized that effort is a lot more than previously considered.
Major QA effort
UOM feature has major changes in Inventory reservation workflow, we are adding new buckets and doing soft allocation to support bulk break.
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Expiry and Virtual combo has added a lot of complexity and also a lot of new cases, which are difficult to test.
Immediate Actions
JIRA Roadmaps
We have Upgraded JIRA plan, now we have access to advanced Roadmaps feature.
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We are now implementing the same for our current sprint itself.
QA Data creation automation
Most of our time is spent in making the test cases data for each and every case. If we are able to automate this, we will be able to save about 40% to 50% time in QA.
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We are immediately starting to implement data creation automation at least (as a poc) for UOM QA so maybe then UOM over timeline will get early, if that is successful we will update with new timelines again.
Future Actions
Team SOPs
With JIRA roadmaps in place, we will be creating new SOPs for the team on what all things to do for planning large features.
QA automation
We are moving towards full QA automation. One part of the QA team will only write new Automation test cases for new features and functionalities, the other part will just run the pre-defined scenarios for new features.
Updated Timelines
Epic or Features | Tentative Release dates |
POS Integration support | 30/Sep/22 |
Increase limits of "Print Bulk Items via CSV" | 07/Oct/22 |
B2B picklist release search filters and Pick Order group | 14/Oct/22 |
Order Accept / Reject Flow | 21/Oct/22 |
Cluster picking | Pre pack staging and Pack box consolidation | 04/Nov/22 |
Order Hopping and Store Schedule Support | 11/Nov/22 |
Allow processing Returns of other warehouses | 23/Nov/22 |
Multiple Units of Measure UOM and Handling, Eaches and Packs | 23/Jan/23 |