Rally Drives a 200% Improvement in Skinker’s Development Process Efficiency

We’ve seen such great results that we haven’t actually quantified our improvement, but my guess is that we have gotten a 200% improvement from adopting Agile and Rally compared to the way we were working before.”

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Development Environment

• Headquartered in London with offices in Milan, New York and Sydney
• High-profile customers including many of the world’s largest corporations — American Airlines, London Stock Exchange, Virgin Atlantic and xbox 360

Challenges

• Lots of detailed documentation but no tangible product to show the customer for feedback
• Communication breakdown between the business and engineering
• Lack of visibility, collaboration and accountability within the team

Solution

• Threw out documentation and started developing in four weekly sprints
• Adopted Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solution after a successful 30-day trial
• Identified and trained a ScrumMaster and gained additional Agile knowledge from Rally

Results

• 200% improvement in development process efficiency
• Customer alignment from direct input on product functionality
• Enthusiastic and engaged engineering team and employee base