Rally Helps BMC Software Increase Individual Team Productivity by 20-50%

When we started with Agile, I was concerned it might be a less disciplined method for development. In reality, it’s more disciplined, and provides more accountability. Using Agile with Rally’s solutions is giving us stronger, more tangible metrics and better visibility into our progress.”

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Development Environment

• Over 900 developers and testers, geographically dispersed with 11 teams in 5 locations: Austin, Houston, Santa Clara, Israel and India

Challenges

• Testing taking 2-3 months per release
• Combine three individual architectures into one infrastructure, all within an extremely short timeframe of 10 months
• Scale Agile development practices up to effectively manage hundreds of personnel across a worldwide workforce
• Matrixed in responsibilities with team members regularly pulled away to fight fires

Solution

• Rally’s Coaches traveled to all BMC sites, working with executives, management and engineers to guide the adoption of a formal Agile development process
• Rally’s on-demand lifecycle management solution enables BMC to manage multi-team Agile development efforts

Results

• Delivering high-quality releases in a fraction of the time
• Nominated for an ADT Innovat- or’s award in the Application Engineering category
• Employees are more engaged and empowered
• Individual team productivity is up by 20-50%
• Better alignment with customer needs
• Higher ROI through Lean Requirements practices
• Customers receive critical functionality sooner through more frequent releases