Website Link:
The project described below is not related to this companies public site, but rather a Magento ecommerce B2B protected site, and has since been enhanced and/or replaced from the original project described below.
Public Site:
https://www.taigabuilding.com/
B2B Ordering Site (this is the project described below):
https://taiganow.com/en
Taiga is committed to being the most reliable and efficient distributor of building products in North America, offering a huge range of building supplies to meet the needs of our customers.
Project Summary
While I worked for Graphically Speaking, one of the projects I was the BA/SA and PM for was Taiga Building Products.
For this project I helped design and manage the creation of a Magento based B2B protected customer portal. This portal contained all the standard features you expect from an ecommerce B2B site as well as many extra enhancements to bring more portal featured capabilites into the system.
Some key features included:
- Product Catalog/Ordering System
- B2B Documentation
- Member Resources
- Sales support tools
- and more…
This project also included several custom features and integrations to help the B2B customers sell products.
As an example, a B2B customer may have their own clients in front of them, and wish to create a shopping list of products without exposing their B2B customer pricing levels, and has the ability to hide pricing so they can share a screen with their own cliental.
Services Provided
I provided a complete range of services for Dillon Precision both from a BA/SA aspect as well as being the primary PM during the entire development phase and during the retainer support. They were effectively my client while they worked with Graphically Speaking.
- BA/SA: I provided complete BA/SA design services of this project From the start of the project through the complete development, through launch and after launch. All standard business analyst-related skills were utilized with this client due to the unique organization business needs. Requirements gathering, solution architecting, wireframing, UI/UX, workflows, business processes, test planning and more were all provided. This included both standard flows as well as design of custom systems and sales workflows to support their B2C clients.
- PM: I provided complete PM services through the initial project development phases, and also post launch. All standard PM services were provided such as budgeting, time management, meetings, scheduling, resource allocation etc…
- Design / UX Support: This project has several special order or shipment processes unique to itself either in checkout processes or from general site control processes, such as a system to permit their B2B customers to hide prices for monitor sharing with their clients. I helped architect and then work with the designers to complete various UI/UX services to meet the special business processes throughout the project phases.
- Dev PM: All standard development PM related responsibilities, such as scheduling development, working with the programmers, handling sprints, communicating requirements and more were handled by me throughout the initial development project cycles.