TechValidate Research on Blueprint

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise industrial manufacturing 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 challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Blueprint:

Purchased Blueprint to:

• Improve the success of product and application launches
• Remove bottlenecks at the front end of the development cycle
• Manage changes required by the business

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
• Overall time and effort required to manually write and coordinate user stories and test cases

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Blueprint:

• Complete projects 11-20% faster when using Blueprint.
• Complete requirements / user stories of an average project with 41-50% less effort since using Blueprint.

Introduction

This case study of PT Astra International Tbk. is based on a February 2018 survey of Blueprint customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

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

• Rated the following areas and their importance to the success of projects:
  • Release cycle time: Very important
  • Development velocity: Very important
  • Release cost: Very important
  • Business/market alignment: Very important

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
• Traceability and impact analysis

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following improvements with Blueprint:

• Release cycle time: 31%-40%
• Development velocity: 21%-30%
• Number of releases on time/budget: 31%-40%
• Number of business plans achieved: 11%-20%