"We have offices in Massachusetts, Michigan, Arizona, and the United Kingdom, as well as offshore teams. There are challenges with a distributed team no matter what the process. V1: Agile Enterprise makes communication and data handling much easier."
Joe Karbowski Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Innovation PeopleCube
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“VersionOne’s Enterprise solution was a strategic factor in rolling out agile in our distributed company. I’m not sure we would have been as successful without it.”
– Warren Elliott, Director of Development, Eos Group
Eos Group builds software for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industries. They know firsthand that the right tool makes any job easier, whether it's building a skyscraper or creating a software system to make pre-construction tasks more manageable. So when the time came to convert his distributed team to an agile methodology three years ago, Development Manager Warren Elliott made finding the right agile tool one of his highest priorities. "I needed a tool that spoke agile and would encourage my team to think and speak agile, too," says Warren. "V1: Agile Enterprise spoke agile and gave us just the right amount of functionality we needed for our environment. The tool was a good fit for our needs."
“Although [PeopleCube] had been using another agile project management tool, we had so many challenges and concerns with it that when the contract came up for renewal, we made the decision to scrap the tool and start over. This time we chose VersionOne.”
– Joe Karbowski, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Innovation, PeopleCube
PeopleCube is in business to help organizations reduce costs and enhance productivity through innovative workplace, resource and energy management solutions. Yet for a time, managing the logistics of their own software development process was a challenge. The traditional waterfall development system they had in place had been adequate for developing “from scratch” projects, but when it came to adding capabilities to their existing products as the market evolved around them, they found it was holding them back. With no time for lengthy spec and design phases for products that might be irrelevant by the time they were released, PeopleCube did what more and more companies are doing: moved to an agile development process and, after a false start, found V1: Agile Enterprise that supported their new structure. They’ve never looked back.
“Liquid Machines is actively developing nine products, each of which has up to four releases every year. In addition, we’re working on a separate, internal automation project. Each project has a dedicated team that is spread across multiple countries and timezones. With V1: Agile Enterprise, it all works! It’s amazing!”
Just one year previously, Liquid Machines had been struggling to integrate their various agile teams. With each team using its own version of agile and its own agile tool, the overall software development picture was a bit chaotic. Today, Liquid Machines has teams in multiple countries, all working together with one process and one tool; and, according to Jeannie Vineyard, VP Engineering for Liquid Machines, “Yes, Version One is definitely a part of that success.”
“The learning curve on V1: Agile Enterprise was fast – the workflow was straightforward and reinforced agile concepts, while the UI was so intuitive that our developers were able to begin using the tool immediately. They just got it. VersionOne works.”
As a result of their recent acquisition by Hi-Media, Fotolog was poised to make a number of enhancements to support more than 18 million members of the world’s #1 photo-blogging website. The problem was that they had begun adopting Extreme Programming (XP) processes for the first time eight months earlier, which were not bringing them the results they had expected. Development was chaotic, reports were cumbersome or non-existent, and communication between the team and the product owner was strained. In response, Fotolog brought in Agile coach Emmanuel Szabados to restructure the development team and to promote Agile development in the management and executive levels as well.
“All of engineering is run through V1: Agile Enterprise - literally every part of the development process uses it. It keeps us organized, aligned, and moving rapidly.”
– Jeromy Wilson, Director of Product Management, Alpha Bay Corporation
Alpha Bay Corporation gives multi-channel retailers a powerful solution for tracking inventory across all areas of their business. They understand that their customers need ready access to data about multiple facets of their business. It's no surprise, then, that when it came time to choosing a system to help them keep track of their complex software development projects, they turned to VersionOne.
