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 a global 500 pharmaceuticals company is based on an August 2017 survey of Blueprint customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Objectives

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

Purchased Blueprint to:

• Manage changes required by the business

Challenges Solved

Blueprint solved the following challenge created by using an ALM tool alone:

• A lack of complete documentation of what has been delivered

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following result with Blueprint:

• Complete the requirements / user stories of an average project with 11-20% less effort since using Blueprint.