Case Study

Extinguishing legacy code fires for good

About Ellevate

Ellevate Network is a global professional women’s network of 35,000 professional women. Ellevate invests in the professional and economic success and engagement of women through the power of their network and thought leadership of their diverse member base.

Ellevate recently underwent a transformative rebranding effort. The rebranding was a success, but the resulting code base behind the scenes was less than stellar. Ellevate has a reputation for being a world class, best in class network for women everywhere, and it was imperative that their online presence lived up to this.

Our Shared Problem

Ellevate partnered with a digital agency that helped them with their branding, but fell short on the Ruby on Rails backend development, leaving Ellevate with a client facing platform that was in a state of despair.

The platform supported a global membership with multi-lingual support for currencies and time zones, however the global member chapters and membership status were broken in their client facing live production site.

Our Desired Outcomes

Stabilize the code base
Introduce rich TDD into the existing legacy code
Code Refactoring

Our Impact

Ellevate’s online presence now accurately reflects the global brand and all that it stands for. They are now able to look forward to the future and continue to build their brand in a way that integrates their online presence with their rich in person content.

“Stride has been a fantastic partner for Ellevate Network. We initially hired Stride to help with website maintenance and trouble shooting, but the relationship evolved into a true partnership where Stride offered great service, creative solutions and top-notch service."

Kristy Wallace, CEO, Ellevate

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Our Desired Outcomes

Implement processes around code at scale
Continuous Deployment
Establish clarity on Plated's priorities
Become successful both inside the code and out
Increase transparency within the development process

Our Impact

Stride hit the ground running with minimal ramp up time. Our team added Agile expertise that Plated was able to seamlessly leverage at pivotal points in their business growth. We got to the root issue and adapted to their culture in a way that was welcomed. Stride helped Plated’s underlying agile and lean processes run smoothly through well-tested and refactored code. As a result, Plated had increased visibility of work, and were able to be their best both inside the code and out.

Addressing the problems of growth

Plated increased visibility of work, improved key engineering metrics, and found a partner to rely on long-term.

Results

The first team hit the initial goal, releasing the new Cheatsheets product to the company.
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Worked with the Codecademy team to build a dashboard that allows clients to assign seats, buy more seats, and bulk-invite users.
Worked with the Codecademy team to automate recurring subscriptions for Business to Business (B2B) users without interrupting renewal processes and Business to Customer (B2C) subscription flow.

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