LAN International Reduces Development Time by Two-Thirds with Rally and Agile
With constantly changing requirements as the rule, rather than the exception at LAN International, the company turned to Agile practices over three years ago in an effort to be able to better react and respond to customers’ demands. After getting its teams humming along with Agile practices, the logical next step for the company was to move away from various spreadsheets to an Agile tool. Unfortunately, the tool vendor that LAN International first chose was incompatible with LAN International’s business processes, particularly because the team wasn’t able to seamlessly pull items from the backlog into iterations and releases. And, the development team at LAN wrestled with the tool’s user interface and found it difficult to navigate and quickly find information they needed within their day-to-day activities.
In addition to having issues with its original software development tracking tool, LAN also struggled with a multitude of other tools, including one for QA, another for testing, and even hold-over spreadsheets used to track various development projects. Not only was the company spending an excessive amount of money for these silo-ed tools, but it also had no way to get a single view of the development organization. After a few months of lowered productivity, frustration and escalating spending, LAN began evaluating other Agile solution providers.
