TechValidate Research on Blueprint

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise health care 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
• Increase maturity and agility of planning and requirements processes

Challenges Solved

Blueprint solved the following challenges created by using Version One alone:

• A lack of having an intuitive, understandable view of products to be delivered that can be reviewed with business stakeholders and large development teams
• 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 result with Blueprint:

• Complete the requirements / user stories of an average project with 21-30% less effort since using Blueprint.

Introduction

This case study of a educational institution is based on an August 2017 survey of Blueprint customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Objectives

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

Purchased Blueprint to:

• Increase business visibility into development plans, designs, and progress before the product is released
• Increase maturity and agility of planning and requirements processes
• Manage changes required by the business

Challenges Solved

Blueprint solved the following challenges created by using JIRA alone:

• Overall time and effort required to manually write and coordinate user stories and test cases
• The difficulty of managing key business imperatives like compliance and non-functional requirements (such as performance, security, usability)

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Blueprint:

• Completes projects 21-30% faster when using Blueprint.
• Complete the requirements / user stories of an average project with 11-20% less effort since using Blueprint.