Case Study: Litle & Co. achieves scalable, faster Agile/XP releases and 50% fewer build failures with AccuRev

Litle & Co. accelerates the Agile XP software development process with Micro Focus® AccuRev

Litle & Co., a fast-growing payment processor focused on direct-to-consumer merchants, was running Agile/XP practices on CVS but hit scalability limits as its collocated development team grew to 30+ people and a 50,000-file codebase. Monthly, overlapping six-week iterations and a five-hour full build/test cycle made branching and merging painful, delayed integrations, and forced costly end-of-cycle merges and manual audit tracking.

The company adopted Micro Focus AccuRev and a Multi-Stage Frequent Integration workflow, using per-iteration streams and frequent merges from mainline so teams build and test isolated changes before integrating. The change cut build failures by 50%, removed hourly labeling overhead, eliminated two days of monthly downtime from big-end merges, and simplified PCI and SAS70 audit compliance through integrated issue tracking.

Litle & Co.

David Tarbox

Director, Software Development, Litle & Co