Faster Time-To-Market with New Software Products

Business Challenge
This innovative software company developed a suite of software products to track the maintenance of fleet vehicles. Its customers are major global companies with strict maintenance requirements who depend on the reliable operation of their fleets.

As the first company in this industry to offer a comprehensive suite of robust software products, its popularity grew rapidly. However, some of its current customers as well as potential customers required the software to run on multiple platforms with an open technical architecture. It was well known that this company had a superior product. It just needed to accommodate its customers' and prospects' varying technical needs. And in this fast-paced market, it needed the solution fast.

Solution
This client realized it had to invest significant development effort in order to accommodate the market's needs. In order to accelerate time-to-market of the new products, the company brought in ATI to provide the training and mentoring on best practices for Agile software development and Extreme Programming (XP), coupled with technology strategy consulting on adopting Java technologies.

ATI worked with this client to provide a combination of workshops and onsite coaching to help its development team learn the new best practices and use the new Java technologies. The workshops covered Agile and XP concepts, release and iteration planning, collaborative development, test-first development and unit testing. ATI's onsite mentors helped expedite the client's understanding and adoption of the new practices.

Business Results
To date, members of this client's development team is creating software faster with even better quality. This is enabling them to adapt quickly to the market and to successfully meet customers' changing needs.