HomeAway Creates Success at Home and Abroad with Agile and Rally
HomeAway’s six development teams are located in Texas, Colorado, and the UK and each believes in releasing quality software often. Major releases occur every other week and patch-level releases on off weeks. As zealous followers of Agile practices, the teams run a mix of sprint lengths – anywhere from four days to one to two weeks, with the last day of each sprint set aside for planning the next sprint’s work. Team members go into Rally daily to pick up assigned tasks or other tasks, based on their velocity. At any time, C-level executives, business owners, and other members of the development team may monitor release development. The team embodies solid Agile principles with communication easily flowing between developers and the organization as a whole. However, this effective team had a bumpy start on its road to incorporating Agile practices.
