vStack: A Unified Development Management Environment Built on SimpleOne SDLC

About the Company

vStack is an IT vendor behind products such as vStack HCP, vStack Cloud Panel, and vStack VDI. The company's platform is positioned as a strong alternative to established enterprise virtualization solutions, offering compelling total cost of ownership and migration flexibility. vStack is part of the ITG Group and operates in the infrastructure software space, serving customers across finance, retail, manufacturing, and the public sector.

The vStack platform helps businesses cut IT infrastructure costs while keeping their information systems running reliably.

Product development is driven by the technical department, which follows agile methodologies: two-week sprints, regular releases, and a clear breakdown of work from epics down to individual tasks and defects. This team became the primary user of SimpleOne SDLC.

Why the Change Was Needed

Before adopting SimpleOne SDLC, development management at vStack was fragmented. Different teams relied on different tools — Jira, Trello, GitLab, and other task trackers — with no single system tying everything together. Some processes weren't tracked in any tool at all; they simply ran informally.

The situation was compounded by market shifts in 2022, when access to a number of international tools became restricted. The need for a single, reliable, enterprise-grade solution became clear, and vStack was among the first companies within the ITG Group to move to SimpleOne SDLC.

Choosing the Platform

The decision to adopt SimpleOne SDLC came down to a mix of strategic, organizational, and product factors.

1. Vendor Independence and Risk Mitigation

Following the disruptions of 2022, when several international services became unavailable, having a vendor-independent solution shifted from a nice-to-have to an outright requirement. A platform not exposed to the compliance risk affecting many global vendors gave vStack the operational continuity it needed.

2. A Shared Ecosystem Across the Group

vStack is part of the ITG Group, where SimpleOne SDLC was already in use — or being rolled out in parallel — at other companies, including Grandbazar and Gettask. A shared tool makes it easier to exchange practices between teams, standardizes reporting, and lowers support overhead.

3. Full SDLC Coverage in a Single Product

Unlike a patchwork of separate tools (a task tracker, a board, a repository, and a standalone code-review tool), SimpleOne SDLC brings backlog, sprint, release, and defect management together in one interface — no more stitching processes together across systems.

4. Flexibility to Match the Team's Own Process

The platform let vStack build its own entity hierarchy — from products and epics down to tasks and defects — without being locked into predefined templates. For a team building a hyperconverged platform with a genuinely complex architecture, that flexibility turned out to be critical.

5. A Direct Feedback Channel with the Vendor

The vStack team can pass feedback straight to SimpleOne and see it reflected in upcoming releases. For a product team that builds software itself, vendor responsiveness matters: the tool evolves alongside the user's real needs rather than following an abstract roadmap.

Rollout

The rollout happened in two key stages.

Stage One — Deployment and Initial Setup

The team's environment was deployed and boards were configured for the development teams. At this stage, SimpleOne SDLC was used in a basic capacity — as a single shared space for tracking work in place of scattered task trackers.

Stage Two — Building Out Full Processes

Over time, the team began structuring its accumulated backlog and building out proper development management processes. New roles emerged, and clear rules took shape for handling the backlog, releases, and defects. This is when vStack started tapping into more of what the platform could do.

How Work Is Organized in the System

All development management work at vStack now runs through SimpleOne SDLC.

The technical department — 100% of its staff — works within a single shared structure:

1. Products and projects — the top-level organization of work in the system.
2. Epics — business requests representing significant functionality with clear business value.
3. Features — a discrete increment of functionality within an epic.
4. Tasks — sequential implementation stages within a feature, each assigned to a specific team member.
5. Defects — issues logged by testers once tasks are completed.

Every two weeks, the team runs sprint planning, allocates tasks, and ships a technical release at the end of the cycle. This rhythm keeps development pace predictable. A handful of related projects, including in marketing, are also tracked in the system.

Results

The key outcome: 100% of development work now lives in a single information environment. Every active project and product — previously spread across Jira, Trello, GitLab, and other tools — has moved into SimpleOne SDLC. The fragmentation is gone: every task has an owner, a status, and a history, and leadership gets a full picture across all teams without having to pull data together from multiple sources.

Moving to a single platform delivered several tangible benefits for the team. Sprint planning became predictable, since all the information needed for prioritization now lives in one place. Time lost switching between tools dropped, with task creation, progress tracking, defect logging, and release management all happening in one environment. New hires get up to speed faster, too, since they only need to learn one tool instead of a patchwork of separate services.

What's Next

vStack sees room to get even more out of the platform going forward. Near-term plans include activating GitLab integration to link tasks with commits and branches, along with adopting the code review functionality introduced in SimpleOne SDLC version 1.9.0. As the company grows, extending the system to other departments hasn't been ruled out. The experience vStack has built up, combined with a direct feedback channel to the vendor, lets the company help shape where the platform goes next — while SimpleOne SDLC keeps adapting more precisely to the realities of vStack's development process. It's a dialogue that benefits both sides.