Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Mammoth Goes Live Today!

Visit tesco.com/tescobooks and you will see an ordinary site in fact ugly looking with many issues which will frustrate you as a user. You will not see a navigation on most of the pages and once you go to some areas of the site the only way to come back will be using a browser back button! the big images will hurt your eyes and login accounts that worked before will suddenly disappear! And the books that were available yesterday might not be there today!

Keeping aside the user experience (which I hope will be fixed in a few months to come) this is the single most biggest successful implementation in the world. Except the warehouse every thing is brand new for the books department. A full stack of 20+ systems went live on a single day. It is every programme managers nightmare and a good amount of people have lost their jobs! But it is finally out! There is not much you will see from a users point of view, but be patient and let it breath and grow. Its a platform which will allow Tesco to react faster to the market, and bring a lot more new things to the user in the future. 

A big congratulations to the full team working on it, some have been working on it for more than 2.5 years! This is surely a reason to celebrate.

-v

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