
Comet Solutions
• Development is primary focus of company and teams include software engineers, project managers, and product managers
• 9 day iterations; day 10 is spent planning for the next iteration
• 4 major releases per year, along with 4 point releases
• Traditional waterfall methods didn’t enable the organization to easily adapt to customer needs
• Executive team had little visibility into the development process
• Bug tracking and open source tools lacked functionality and weren’t designed as Agile tools
• Implemented Rally’s Agilelifecycle management solutions, enabling the organization to better respond and adapt to customer requirements
• Through Rally’s Web Services API, adding on Salesforce.com integration module to enable full product tracking throughout the organization from development through to support
• Rally reinforces Agile practices and offers the functionality Comet Solutions needs
• 25% increase in software quality
• 10-20% improvement in software development time
• Complete end-to-end product lifecycle visibility for executive and development teams