Data Driven Avanade Issue 2 | Page 9

“NO OTHER SPORT
HAS THIS CONTINUOUS
DEVELOPMENT,
IT CREATES VERY
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS.”
Phil Adey
Lotus F1 Team’s
Drawing Office Manager

RESULTS REALIZED
“The release mechanisms are a lot more efficient now
than before Avanade joined us. It’s a much quicker,
slicker process, which in turn affords us more time to
get the final design right,” explains Adey.
There are two Avanade consultants embedded in
the Lotus F1 Team design office, and their task is to
ensure the designers get what they need, to become
measurably more productive without any increase in
headcount and resources.
“Avanade’s guys got up to speed extremely quickly, it
was seamless. They are not only developers but they
also test the product before it goes live, and their high
standards have ensured we have better systems with no
bugs. There is a continuous loop where the Avanade
consultants are working very much integrated with
the team here to make sure the demands are clearly
understood and that the deliverables are correct.”

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With the roll out of the 2014 car nearing and work 75
percent completed, thoughts are already turning to
2015. “We will need to start designing it in late spring
2014, in order to make the deadlines. And so again you
have that cycle where you will be developing a 2015
car whilst the 2014 car is still in its infancy, which will
be more acute next year than any year before. So next
year, like this year, will be a massive dual development
operation.”
“No other sport has this continuous development, it
creates very special requirements. It’s unlike any
other industry, but the experiences learnt here can,
I’m sure, be applied to other businesses where two
or more different products are being designed and
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