The EIT - European Institute of Innovation & Technology - is an independent body of the European Union which brings together leading higher education institutions, research labs and companies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe. Together with multiple European companies, Colruyt Group participates in one of the innovation projects to stimulate the reduction of the environmental footprint of products.
The goal of this project is to create an online application which supports companies in achieving an environmental foodprint reduction. To do this, the application allows different companies in the product life cyle to add their data and to calculate the environmental footprint of a product as well as to simulate the impact when introducing certain changes in their organization.
Due to the innovative character of this project, the focus is on getting a minimum viable product ready in a short period of time. To achieve this, we use an agile / scrum project approach in which my tasks as a product owner and analyst are to: