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title: 80% Faster Improvements with New Build and Test Cycle - Oshyn
description: Oshyn modernized NEAMB's outdated dev environment, reducing build times from 15 minutes to 1, speeding up feature delivery and developer productivity.
url: http://www.oshyn.com/work/neamb-faster-dev-cycles
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# Improvements Launched 80% Faster with New Build and Test Cycle

![Laptop screen with NEAMB's homepage screen](https://media2.oshyn.com/-/media/Oshyn/Case-Studies/NEAMB---Removing-Gulp/cs_hero_neamb-removing-gulp.jpg?rev=df7a8728c7cd4323ad852e780e9138de&hash=568CED991EA87A835E484785D519D40E)

The National Education Association Member Benefits (NEAMB), a subsidiary of the National Education Association (NEA), offers discounts and benefits on travel, insurance, finance, and more for teachers.

![NEAMB](https://media2.oshyn.com/-/media/Oshyn/Case-Studies/NEAMB---Removing-Gulp/cs_intro_neamb-removing-gulp.jpg?rev=e2b7d4d8db8848c8af5ecf25ef545e8c?h=564&w=476)


- Services
- Enhance & Maintain

- Technologies
- Sitecore
- .NET

#### A new development environment for an insurance company speeds up development cycle by 80% and feature-building efficiency by 30%.


## The Challenge

NEAMB suffered from performance issues, causing developers to lose over an hour daily. New features took longer to get to market and cost more time and money to build, causing customers to leave and seek other alternatives.

NEAMB was a long-term client, and Oshyn’s proactive involvement helped NEAMB discover that the problem was due to an outdated development environment that wasn’t up to current standards.

## The Solution

The Oshyn team modernized the NEAMB development environment by moving the .NET build process to a more standard Visual Studio-based solution instead of an outdated JavaScript task runner. This change would improve project compilation time, giving developers a more streamlined and maintainable solution.

Oshyn also restructured dependencies to make them more optimal and agile. This change simplified the development process and reduced code duplication. It also meant that the new development environment would be future-proof for when the company needs to scale.

![NEAMB website on a laptop screen](https://media2.oshyn.com/-/media/Oshyn/Case-Studies/NEAMB---Removing-Gulp/solutions_laptop_neamb-removing-gulp.png?rev=b4b3a6a1b22640a4a49dcf584cafdb46?h=570&w=1016)

The Outcome

Oshyn successfully updated the development environment, decreasing compilation time from 15 minutes to 1 minute. This significant improvement allows developers to build new features faster and more efficiently, thereby improving the speed with which changes are moved through development environments and reducing future upgrade development efforts by 30%.

Development Cycle Speed

### +80%


Feature-Building Efficiency

### +30%