TechValidate Research on Blueprint

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 computer services company is based on a March 2018 survey of Blueprint 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 Blueprint:

• The importance of the following metrics to the success of projects:
  • Release cycle time: Very important
  • Development velocity: Very important
  • Release cost: Very important
  • Business/market alignment: Very important

Their average team works on releases with the following characteristics:

• Average release cycle time is 6-12 months for a high priority release.
• Average development velocity of a release is 6-12 months.
• Average IT budget per release is $1-$5M.
• The typical value of a business case for an average release is $1-$5M.

Use Case

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

• Visual process/solution models
• Reviews and approvals
• Automatic generation of use cases, tests, user stories
• Reuse requirements, regulations, artifacts, etc
• Baselines and collections
• Traceability and impact analysis

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Blueprint:

• Saw the following improvement in these areas since implementing Blueprint:
  • Release cycle time: 31%-40%
  • Development velocity: 21%-30%
  • Number of releases on time/budget: >40%
  • Number of business plans achieved: 31%-40%

With Blueprint, their success metrics are now:

• 90-99% of their releases are delivered to meet the planned timeline, scope and budget.
• 90-99% of releases achieve their business case targets within the first 12 months.

Introduction

This case study of Intercontinental Hotels Group is based on an August 2017 survey of Blueprint customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Objectives

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

Purchased Blueprint to:

• Increase business visibility into development plans, designs and progress before the product is released
• Remove bottlenecks at the front end of your development cycle

Challenges Solved

Blueprint solved the following challenges created by using JIRA alone:

• A lack of a permanent system of record of what has been delivered
• A lack of complete documentation of what has been delivered
• The difficulty of managing key business imperatives like compliance and non-functional requirements (such as performance, security, usability)

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Blueprint:

• Completes projects 41-50% faster when using Blueprint.
• Decreased the number of defects and/or enhancement requests for the average project by 31-40% when using Blueprint.
• Complete the requirements / user stories of an average project with 21-30% less effort since using Blueprint.