LAN International Reduces Development Time by Two-Thirds with Rally and Agile

Once people in the company began to see the results from Rally, it started to become the go-to place for tracking pretty much everything. Now almost everyone in the company is using Rally on a daily basis. The thing I like best about Rally is that it provides me with a high-level picture of development efforts that I can then send to upper management.”

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Development Environment

• Dispersed development teams in Florida and California
• Four-week iterations, with accompanying one-month releases

Challenges

• Project management tool in use was incompatible with company's business processes
• Silo-ed tools were expensive for the company to maintain and made it difficult to view an overview of all development efforts across the organization
• Defect tracking tool was not integrated into other tools used by the development organization

Solution

• Implemented Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solutions, enabling close synchronization of company's business process and reinforcing Agile best practices
• One end-to-end software lifecycle management solution providing cost savings and complete view of development across the company
• Rally Quality Manager enabling defect tracking to be closely integrated with other development efforts

Results

• Cost savings due to the reduction of tools across the organization and the creation of higher quality software
• Release time reduced by two-thirds, from every three months to one-month releases