HomeAway Improves Time-to-Market by 20% with Rally and Agile

Rally has had a powerful and positive influence on HomeAway. I believe in what Rally does and will continue to recommend them strongly to organizations searching for an Agile solution.”

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Development Environment

• Multiple development teams, business owners and locations dispersed globally
• Frequent delivery of new features and updates to website(s) and other platforms

Challenges

• Difficulty in effectively communicating across teams
• Little to no visibility for executives and business owners on the development process
• Lack of consistent development methodology across the organization

Solution

• Implemented Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solutions
• Engaged Rally coaches to educate teams on Agile practices
• Software-as-a-Service platform drove fast implementation across the organization

Results

• 40-50 non-bug releases in the past two years for two of the six development teams, including five milestone releases and large feature enhancements
• Releases every other week, with patch releases on off weeks
• Significantly improved communication between dispersed teams, increasing the entire team’s effectiveness and productivity
• Company-wide adoption of Agile practices
• Robust reporting tracks capitalization and non-capitalization development expenses