TechValidate Research on AgileCraft

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise health care company is based on a February 2019 survey of AgileCraft customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select AgileCraft:

• Required a tool to support their global SAFe initiative

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of AgileCraft that the surveyed company uses:

• Integration with Jira above the team level

• Designed to allow the development organization to use the tools they want without any disruption to their work in process
  • A platform that could scale throughout the organization

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with AgileCraft:

• Increased the productivity of their software teams between 30 – 40%.
• Realized impactful benefits within 1 – 3 Months after implementation was complete.
• Accelerated the implementation of their scaled agile initiative across the company

• AgileCraft capabilities compared to the competition:
  • SAFe Support: best in class
  • Project and program portfolio: significantly better
  • Product roadmapping: significantly better
  • Integration with 3rd party tools: best in class
  • Scrum team support: significantly better

• AgileCraft capabilities compared to the competition:
  • Performance: significantly better
  • Ease of use: significantly better
  • Reliability: significantly better
  • Scalability: significantly better
  • User interface: significantly better

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise retail company is based on a February 2019 survey of AgileCraft customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select AgileCraft:

• Too too many tools in place to effectively manage software delivery
• To gain visibility above the team level

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of AgileCraft that the surveyed company uses:

• Integration with Jira above the team level
• Ability to measure value delivered with real-time data and reporting, instead of guessing, to effectively decide what to build next.
• A platform that could scale throughout the organization

Vendors evaluated before choosing AgileCraft:

• Atlassian Jira Portfolio Plugin

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with AgileCraft:

• Increased the productivity of their software teams by more than 40%.
• Realized impactful benefits within 3 – 6 Months after implementation was complete.
• Accelerated the SAFe implementation across the company
• Drove top to bottom visibility and transparency
• Enabled Better PI/Program planning capabilities
• Reduced manual reporting and labor
• Increased collaboration and communication leveraging real-time, integrated roadmaps

• AgileCraft capabilities compared to the competition:
  • Performance: best in class
  • Ease of use: best in class
  • Reliability: best in class
  • Scalability: best in class
  • User interface: best in class

• AgileCraft’s capabilities compared to the competition:
  • SAFe Support: best in class
  • Project and program portfolio: best in class
  • Product roadmapping: best in class
  • Integration w/3rd party tools: best in class
  • Scrum team support: best in class