Rally Provides CNET.com with Real-time Visibility and Metrics to Measure Success

You can actually hide a lot of issues in a plan-based schedule, and you simply can’t do that if you are using Agile and Rally. With Rally, we now have really good visibility on our engineering efforts, so it’s easy to see where we stand at any point in time. Rally gives us real-time insights on what resources are being used for particular projects.”

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Development Environment

• Two week iterations, with periodic releases
• JSP code base, HTML markup, CSS, and JavaScript

Challenges

• Twenty plus spreadsheets unwieldy to manage and required that each project have its own project manager
• No overview of the development efforts across the organization

Solution

• Implemented Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solutions, providing a single, enterprise-wide overview of all development projects across the organization

Results

• Almost two times faster time-to-market as compared to industry average
• Team productivity 10% higher than industry average