Pinnacol Assurance Increases the Efficiency of Development Team by 20% with Rally and Agile

With Agile and Rally, people trust the IT teams to do what they say they will do. The business groups have visibility into the IT team’s backlog and have confidence high priority requests will get done first. Our prioritization process also lets us reallocate team members as needed to higher priority projects.”

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Development Environment

• Internal IT applications development team
• Business applications in Oracle, moving to Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Run on 3 week iterations, with releases every 12 weeks

Challenges

• Tracking through post-its©, spreadsheets and open source tools was cumbersome and made it difficult for the organization to understand development progress
• No view to IT backlog for business groups and other stakeholders

Solution

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

Results

• Increased productivity from all IT teams, with one team showing a 20% productivity improvement
• Rally helps dramatically improve communication between IT and business groups and provides a clear prioritization process