AutoVIN Projects Saving $800,000 in Overhead Costs by Implementing Agile & Rally

With Agile and Rally, we have now halved the number of releases we do in a year to fifteen to twenty releases and project a savings of $800,000 in overhead costs. Plus, the releases we do put out meet the needs of our customers.”

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Development Environment

• Run on two-week iterations, with releases every six weeks
• Develop in .net and also use legacy tools such as ASP

Challenges

• Weekly ad-hoc releases responsible for $40,000 in yearly overhead costs
• Inability to accurately track development time made capital expense allocation difficult

Solution

• Implemented Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solutions, providing end-to-end visibility on development progress and releases across the organization

Results

• Project saving $800,000 in yearly overhead costs
• Accurate tracking of development time enables compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and correct capitalization allocation