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ABOUT MEASURED PROGRESS
Measured progress is a leading company in the development of specialized testing for students comprising the entire education system in the United States; Evaluates the performance of students, school districts and different states. Founded in 1983, what started as a “boutique” consulting company has come to evaluate more than 2.5000.000 students all around the United States.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Given the nature of the company and the methodology of service delivery through the web, the availability and efficiency of the site through a Rich Internet Applications (RIA) interface, is critical to meeting the expectations of their customers. Measured progress had highly trained engineers, but the high workload did not allow them to fully comply with all assigned tasks, so they needed an extension of their quality and development teams that could overcome the learning curve quickly and easily integrated into the work dynamics.
REACH OF THE PROJECT
Avantica formed work teams that came to have more than 35 engineers in the area of quality and development to expand the capacity of MP to attend multiple concurrent projects based on developing, maintaining and testing a broad portfolio of projects. Through the use of mixed methodologies Agile and Waterfall began with the development of quality tests in different test environments and varied combinations of OS/Browser and subject to very strict time restrictions that could not be modified.
With a short trainings series at the MP facilities, Avantica’s engineers began to quickly integrate into MP’s work teams and become an integral part of them; Understanding first the management of development and quality by MP and then enriching its methodology with our experience and proposing the best strategy for the project.
CHALLENGES OF PROJECT
- Broad portfolio of customer products
- QA team trained but without bandwidth to perform additional tasks
- Implementation of Agile – Scrum and Cascade Methodologies
- Time constraints with non-moving clients
BENEFITS OF WORK WITH AVANTICA
The Avantica team became an integral part of the development and quality team of Measured Progress. Timely support was offered and improvements were even recommended to the MP processes that were subsequently implemented.
- A notable improvement was achieved in the quality that was perceived and commented by the customers and end users of the various products of MP.
- Avantica provided timely feedback and worked in constant integration with MP’s in-house teams fulfilling the delivery of results in an agile and effective way.