Acorn Systems Grows Development Capacity by Almost 30% with Rally’s Lifecycle Management Solution

We now have precise numbers on which we can commit and our release planning now takes less than a day. We could not have achieved this without Rally’s support and technology. Rally is the best product I’ve seen for effective management of the development process, bar none.”

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Development Environment

• Distributed development team in Houston, Austin and the Ukraine
• Fast-growing customer-base and highly competitive market
• Cross-platform development J2EE and .NET

Challenges

• Testing taking 2-3 months per release
• Conflicting product priorities and requirements
• Complex and lengthy stabilization process
• Disparate requirements, test case, defect tracking and program management tools

Solution

• Adopted Rally’s on-demand software lifecycle management platform
• Trained and equipped 25 developers across 3 locations in 2 months
• Eliminated the need for 4 out of 5 existing software lifecycle management tools

Results

• Testing & packaging time reduced from 50% to 20% of program duration
• Increased development capacity by 30% or $35,000 per month
• Effectively increased capacity by 3 full-time developers
• Reduced release planning effort from days to hours