Moody’s Achieves Four Times Faster Time-to-Market with Rally and Agile

An Agile team took over the complete redesign of one of our most successful desktop products, turning it into a scalable enterprise solution. A project of that scope would likely have taken two to three years using our older waterfall-style process; we released version 1.0 of the redesigned product to the market in twelve months.”

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Development Environment

• Two week iterations, with releases every three months
• Develop in Java, C++, and .net

Challenges

• Mix of spreadsheets, wikis, and traditional project tools was difficult to maintain for the development organization and had a detrimental effect on productivity
• No overview of the development efforts across the organization

Solution

• Implemented Rally’s Agile lifecycle management solutions, providing a single, enterprise-wide overview of all development projects across the organization that was easy to maintain and update

Results

• Four times faster time-to-market as compared to industry average
• Productivity for development team 47% better than industry average