Company Overview
Customers
Shopzilla Decreases Release Cycle Time by 50% and Improves Productivity by 20% with Rally
Rally is a full web application that is very economical. It let us start small and scaled up easily without needing a lot of professional services. Within a month the first team was using 80% of Rally’s available functionality and we have been able to quickly repeat our implementation with other teams.”
Development Environment
- Multiple development teams, business owners and locations
- Rapid, frequent delivery of new features and updates to a hosted Linux platform, C/C++/Java/Perl, Sybase/Oracle
Challenges
- Implicit processes and homegrown spreadsheets and wikis began to tax the system in the face of rapid growth
- New employee ramp-up was taking too long to keep pace with growth
- Management losing visibility into service delivery
- Company needed to release faster to meet competitive demands of business
Solution
- Implemented a pilot program with Rally Program application
- Rapidly rolled out to additional teams within two months
- Engaged Rally Coaches to educate new teams on Agile practices
Results
- Productivity savings of 20%
- Release cycle time decreased 50%
- Business people able to work on customer issues and roadmap
- Engineers have clear alignment with company goals
- Improved project and program visibility
- New personnel productive by their second day of employment