Energy web product and engineering teams now speak the same language
Results
Increased visibility between product and engineering
Faster decision-making with fewer meetings
Customers easily understand their offering
What do Energy Web do?
Energy Web is a global non-profit on a mission to accelerate the energy transition by developing and deploying open-source Web3 technologies that help companies unlock business value from clean and distributed energy resources.
Industry
Web3
Challenge
Before IcePanel, documentation and system design assets existed in many places, some inaccessible to particular audiences and out-of-date (GitHub, Miro, Draw.io).
Visual assets lacked consistency and clarity, making it difficult to get the correct information when needed, wasting time with back and forth between team members.
These caused barriers between product and engineer and an undistributed knowledge of how the systems worked.
Approach
- Started as a small team of subject matter experts to create their IcePanel model
- Increased collaboration to fill in knowledge gaps
- Energy web now uses IcePanel as a central place for the majority of collaborative software architecture discussions across their development teams
Results
Increased visibility between product and engineering
Faster decision-making with fewer meetings
Customers easily understand their offering
Conclusion
- Energy web’s ability to pick up this lightweight standard with an accessible tool has led to more efficient conversations, decision making and increased visibility.
- The team now collaborates regularly on the design of the system within the tool.
- Business members use IcePanel to showcase how they integrate with their customers as part of the sales process.
Explain complex systems like Energy Web
Share tribal knowledge with collaborative system design linked to your code.