Case Study: Education company clears legacy backlog and accelerates app development with Datavail's Sprint Teams-as-a-Service

Sprint Teams as a Service When AppDev Isn’t Your Core Business

Education Company, which connects international schools with students studying abroad, faced mounting legacy-system issues and a backlog of updates while needing new applications developed quickly. They did not want to grow an in-house IT staff or commit to large, capital-intensive redevelopment projects, so they engaged Datavail and its Sprint Teams-as-a-Service (STaaS) to balance urgent tactical fixes with longer-term priorities.

Datavail implemented STaaS—two-week, cross-disciplinary sprint teams that first attacked the legacy backlog, then iteratively developed new features with regular client feedback. The approach let Datavail address legacy fixes and new development simultaneously, give the Education Company on-demand teams without expanding permanent staff, enable biweekly reprioritization, and convert development into a manageable monthly operational expense rather than a large capital outlay.