Craft vs Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) | TrustRadius

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Score 7.7 out of 10

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Score 7.9 out of 10

Based on 85 reviews and ratings

Pros

Craft is built to digital products developers, so its workflow is great.
It has a very nice interface and is a beautiful tool.

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Raphael Sanguinete

Diretor Criativo e Produtor

RebuliçoEntertainment, 1-10 employees

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The ability to tailor the tool for each product. For example some simpler projects can be managed with simple user stories, a Kanban process and board. Large projects are managed with iterations, releases, tasks and burn down charts.
Create a home dashboard and customize it to show user stories and tasks assigned to you and a personal burn down chart.
A portfolio management capability where you can link and view the entire hierarchy from theme to initiative to feature to user story(s) and finally to tasks.

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Strategic Analyst

Aon National Flood ServicesInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.

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Principal

Versa Studio LLCInternet, 1-10 employees

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the service was intermittently down, sometimes for several hours.
Rally is a very large powerful tool, and that also is the reason why it can't be a good fit for small teams who want simpler interfaces and way less features.
loading pages is slow, add to that if you (like me) keep it open all day after signing in, the systems logs you out automatically.
pening multiple windows (on separate tabs) has some problematic issues esp. when your sessions expires, and you will need to sign in to all other tabs one by one. Also if you attempt to sign in again on one tab, all the other tabs redirect to the same page of the first tab you signed in.
a steep learning curve for agile beginners/novice team member - leaving those members to use the tool without any training makes it almost impossible for them to know what they must do to get by their daily tasks
not enough free documentation online

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Engineer in Research & Development

Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) 9.0

Based on 4 answers

To keep connecting my people, platform, and process for faster, smarter, better results.
Making the right contribution to the community. Use Agile and Lean processes to manage the work of your team.
Once you have tasted the positive result with Rally Software, you don't want to give up and come back to the old school of development pain any more.

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NAS SME, ESE

Providence Health & ServicesHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) 7.5

Based on 5 answers

Great UI, recent refresh was terrific. Great graphs and metrics, inline editing for updates, and a multitude of views on sprint progress make for a great team collaboration experience. There is also an active community and forums so that if you do need help, it is readily available

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Vice President Research & Development

E2openComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Don’t recall ever being unavailable.

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Director in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Performance

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Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) 7.0

Based on 2 answers

The screens render relatively quickly but many actions that you would expect to require a single click require multiple clicks and pop-up windows. The extra windows and clicks make the product feel ponderous.

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Director in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Craft 9.6

Based on 3 answers

Responsive chat with founders to answer any questions you have.

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Consultant in Engineering

Banking Company, 1-10 employees

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Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) 7.4

Based on 8 answers

I've had to use support only one time and my issue was eventually resolved but not because of my ticket--because others complained about the functionality taken away so they brought it back. My ticket was never answered or addressed. So I can't really say much for the support factor for Rally.

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Design V&V Engineer

Philips RespironicsComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

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Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) 7.0

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It more or less confirmed that we are using it the way they had in mind. We were hoping for a epiphany in terms of how we could use it better.

They also want to be a go to source for agile processes and have an online resource center. It’s not that great but had a couple of nuggets. It hasn’t really helped us too much and we are not too far off from the classical interpretation of agile.

I would recommend training, in particular for organizations that multiple on-going projects. The product seems optimized for larger, more complex teams and getting proper training on how to configure, administer and use the system would be beneficial

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Director in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Implementation Rating

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Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) 8.0

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Implementation of RALLY services and program satisfaction among various group,... 1) Dev Outcomes: How were our resiliencies, development, learning & practitioners “make them do the work,” but that they ask you to do it “in a way like before.2) The Ops group: Just wish to make sure any change won't break current production envirementsAll the stake holders has to be on the same page

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NAS SME, ESE

Providence Health & ServicesHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Craft has a completely unique tool set that has functionality that really is not duplicated any where else in the industry. It cannot really be compared to any other tool I have had experience with, especially with the larger cloud infrastructure that Invision has built around their plugin and their platform.

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Sr. Product Designer

Four Winds InteractiveComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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It was a close race between Jama, JIRA and Rally. We decided to go for Jama as a requirements management tool and use Rally for Agile projects. The cost was another factor that made us select Rally.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Quality Assurance

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

We used the free version of Craft, so it had a positive impact for us.
Craft helped us undestand how to manage some parts of our projects, so it had a positive impact for us.

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Raphael Sanguinete

Diretor Criativo e Produtor

RebuliçoEntertainment, 1-10 employees

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It supports our version and Agile and we have been able to deliver because of it.
It is complicated. A tool should not be complicated but rather easy to use. Rally is not.
It is a lot costlier than tools such as Jira.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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