Sermo Completes 13 Releases in Six Months with Rally
We’ve done 13 releases in six months since we implemented Rally. Without Rally, we maybe would have done half that number. We are dramatically more efficient.”
Development Environment
- Mac shop that develops primarily in Java and Ruby on Rails
- Six development teams dispersed globally between Minsk, Belarus and Cambridge, MA
- Run on two-week iterations with two to three iterations for each release; ship every release
Challenges
- Delayed releases with little predictability in software release dates
- Tracking through homegrown wikis made it difficult for the organization to understand development progress
- No reinforcement of Agile practices across the company
Solution
- Implemented Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solutions, providing end-to-end visibility on development progress and releases across the organization
- Rally solution provides reinforcement of Agile best principles across the company
Results
- Time-to-market is three times faster with Rally and Agile

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