Belfast Digital Skills Academy — OutSystems Project Presentation
Over the last few months, we have had a group of eight fresh enthusiasts from the Academy program learning the OutSystems platform, first with individual training, and then with a group project. On Thursday 5th October around 30 of the Belfast-based OutSystems community got together to see what they’ve been up to.
Under the tutelage of Jonathan McShane, and with loads of help from Conor Cadden and Kyle McIntosh, the group project kicked off on 21st June. The team (pictured) consists of (L-R) Dean Oliver, Sean Gormley, Jekaterina Tasireva, Adam Studholme, Paul Lynch, Sean McGarrigle, Gregory McFadden, and Logan McKee.
The brief was initially something quite familiar — create a new timesheet system — and over time the product owners added more features and stories to keep challenging the group.
Working in an agile manner, and with some help and guidance from Yasmin Lynn, the team managed to create their stories in Jira, assign them in sprints, figure out their app architecture, and then build the solution.
Over time the solution expanded from Timesheets, which needed Employees, Projects, and Customers — to Expenses, Notifications, Billing, and Reporting. Roles were admins, managers, and developers — with the ability to see icons and execute tasks tailored to each.
Some nice features included exporting as CSV, formatted Excel and PDF, and on-screen graphs and summary tables, with active filters and a ‘save’ feature. As you can see from the screenshots, it’s grown into a significant application.
With discussion of course there were opportunities to learn, how to work as a team, how to structure the modules to allow independent development without tripping over each other, and how to use third-party components through the Forge Marketplace.
But, from the audience, we were impressed! It’s plain to see that everyone has contributed well to the development of the solution and also played their part in the presentation to a larger group — well done to all involved!
About the author
Andy Borthwick is a Solution Architect here at Version 1.
