Lulu.com Delivers Eight Releases in One Year after Implementing Agile and Rally

It was important to me to have a tool that enables the processes to be dictated by what’s right for the business, rather than the tool forcing the organization to comply with certain processes. Rally definitely gives us that flexibility.”

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Development Environment

• Development is primary focus of company and teams include software engineers, project managers, and product managers
• Teams of four to six work both independently and collaborate together
• Two week iterations and new software releases every 6 weeks

Challenges

• Paper-based Post-It system didn’t allow visibility into the development lifecycle for key executives
• Difficult to manage process for tracking and managing various release projects

Solution

• Implemented Rally’s product lifecycle management solution, providing complete end-to-end product lifecycle visibility from feature request to release for executive and development teams
• Engaged Rally coaches to educate teams on Rally and Agile best practices, improving the management of multiple release projects

Results

• Eight releases in one year, including 2 major releases of the new Lulu Studio™ application, a web-based platform
• Easy installation with 100% adoption of Rally’s Enterprise solution in approximately 4 weeks
• Significant improvement in project management teams’ efficiency and productivity