Vistaprint transformed its development teams to Agile, reducing release cycles from 18 months to 3 weeks. Marketing had to move faster to match this pace. The bottlenecks seemed to be in the in-house advertising agency. Could Agile work for them? Yes it could!
Using the Kanban method and the agile mindset, we reduced the lead time for the North American email team from 8 weeks to 9 days. The cycle time dropped from 15 days to 4. Late night and weekend work disappeared. The on-time delivery rate soared and quality did not suffer. Showing that Agile works well outside of software is providing the traction for an enterprise-wide transformation.
This presentation will explain the challenges and the key steps that made this transformation successful and how it led to the Enterprise wide transformation.
