Case Study

Project Scope & Delivery

GDI Rent Management — a six-week engagement from the first requirements conversation to production deployment, with continuous refinement during onboarding and training.

Six weeks, five phases, one happy customer

6 weeks
Total engagement (with overlap)
5 phases
Requirements → training
Jira
Change log & sprint tracking
ADKAR
Change-management framework

How the six weeks played out

Refinement overlapped onboarding and training — changes landed while users were already using the platform.

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Requirements Gathering
2 weeks
Prototype Setup
1 week
Negotiation
1 week
Onboarding
1 week
Training
1 week
Continuous Refinement
Ongoing during onboarding + training

What each phase actually involved

1
2 weeks
Requirements Gathering

Stakeholder interviews, operational workflow mapping, and existing-process audit. Established the functional scope and success metrics before any code was written.

2
1 week
Prototype Setup

Stood up a working prototype covering the core flows — renters, invoicing, receipts, deposits — for stakeholder review. Feedback loop ran tight so every demo produced a concrete decision.

3
1 week
Negotiation

Finalised scope, pricing, and service expectations. Aligned on what would ship on day one vs. what would come in post-launch iteration.

4
1 week · refinement in parallel
Onboarding

Production data migrated, user accounts provisioned, company settings configured. Refinements — small UX tweaks, label changes, workflow adjustments — shipped live as onboarding revealed them.

5
1 week · refinement in parallel
Training

Role-based sessions with admins and staff, supported by a built-in Job Aid and Submit-a-Ticket channel. Training feedback fed back into the same refinement backlog.

Continuous during weeks 5–6
Refinement

Refinement wasn't a separate phase — it ran alongside onboarding and training. Each change was logged in Jira, prioritised with the customer, and deployed without interrupting daily use.

ADKAR framework

Adoption of a new system depends on people as much as on software. We ran the engagement through Prosci's ADKAR model.

A
Awareness

Identified the operational pain points with stakeholders.

D
Desire

Aligned on what a better day-to-day workflow should feel like.

K
Knowledge

Trained admins and staff on the new dashboard and processes.

A
Ability

Hands-on support during onboarding — real tasks, real coaching.

R
Reinforcement

Jira-tracked iteration kept new habits from drifting back.

A single change log drove the whole iteration

Jira Board

Every change request, bug report, and onboarding observation landed in a single Jira board. Prioritisation, traceability, and sprint reviews all ran from that one source of truth — no stale spreadsheets, no lost feedback.

Refinement During Use

Onboarding and training doubled as a live feedback loop. When a user said "this label would be clearer as X," the change was in the Jira backlog the same day and live within the week.

Six weeks from first conversation to live deployment — and the team kept refining the platform right through onboarding and training. GDI built a system that fits how we actually work.
T&T Holdings, LLC · Launched on GDI Rent Management

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