Learn How to Speed Up Your Team’s Daily Routines as an EDI Team Lead

Topic Number 1 - Message Validation and Testing Procedures.

Anyone who has ever worked with EDI-based application testing knows that it’s hard manual work that consumes a number of man-hours sometimes feeling like infinity. The complex nature of the workflows makes testing a laborious job. As a team leader, your job is to keep your team as efficient and nimble as possible, right? As you oversee the tasks run & completed by your team, take a minute to survey how your team does testing.

Now, do you think you should help them minimize human work & man-hours from this, and allow your testing engineers to focus on test analysis instead? Yes?

Wow! You’re in for a treat, then. Supplying your team with a modern test automation service will help you do exactly that. One great example of a tool like this is TRUUGO. (Disclaimer: YAY, it’s our product! But still, it’s one of the best tool for this – at least what I’ve managed to find!) You’ll be able to spend much less resources through our self-service testing solutions. You’ll be able to forget unsatisfied customers because your response times will go down like crazy and instead of receiving varying test feedback, your team always gets unified results.

Topic Number 2 – Documentation

I listed a painfully extensive list of issues EDI implementation team leads’ run into if not daily, at least weekly. Working with requirements compliance and partner compatibility, data integration, and other similar issues, we keep running into the same enlightenment: documentation.

Creating documentation does several important jobs at once. Thorough, error-free documentation simultaneously creates a report of what has been done, how it’s been done, and who’s done it – and it also creates a diary for all those that follow. There’s always natural mobility inside teams where engineers change jobs, leave companies, or get assigned to other tasks even mid-projects for a multitude of reasons.

Whenever any of these scenarios take place, the project is at risk. At the risk of blowing its timeframe, budget, or success metrics. As new players come in, it takes time for them to understand how things are done.

Good, automated documentation can save you a lot of time and stress from this by supplying a unified book of instructions on how one employee is doing things vs another. But that’s not all – because almost every EDI engineer creates documentation in some form as they work.

The key to success here is two-fold: to implement a unified platform where all of the documentation is kept AND to choose a documentation platform that integrates with the tools your engineers already use for their work. By using a platform ready to integrate, you’ll be able to save massive amounts of manual labor from your engineers as they don’t need to create all of the documentation manually – instead, their tools automatically document their work as they go.

As you can probably guess already, Truugo has a built-in automated documentation platform. It’s already integrated with a great set of tools to make your everyday work more time-efficient, cost-efficient, and just… Better.