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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Planview ProjectPlace

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AProjectplace is a collaborative work management solution. The vendor says the product is built with teams of all sizes and complexity in mind, from virtual teams of five to entire global enterprises with tens of thousands of active users. It is also designed to incorporate waterfall and agile workflows.N/A

    Rally Software

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ARally Software headquartered in Boulder, Colorado developed the Rally agile software development / ALM platform which was acquired by CA Technologies and rebranded as CA Agile Central. After CA's acquisition by Broadcom the software was once again rebranded as Rally.N/A
    Pricing
    Planview ProjectPlaceRally Software
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Planview ProjectPlaceRally Software
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Planview ProjectPlaceRally Software
    Considered Both Products
    Planview
    Chose Planview ProjectPlace
    Planview Projectplace gives Jira a very tough competition in terms of its very powerful Kanban feature set. Its tracking individual tasks and workload in one single view is also one up on Jira.
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    Broadcom
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    88 Answers
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    80 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    91 Answers
    57%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    60 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Planview ProjectPlaceRally Software
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Planview ProjectPlace and Rally Software
    Feature
    Planview ProjectPlace
    7.7
    198 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Rally Software
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Task Management8.4191 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Resource Management6.7158 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.7171 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Scheduling7.7169 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.7193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.7151 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.8140 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Document Management9.0184 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Email integration6.4163 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.7147 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking6.0129 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings6.73 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of Planview ProjectPlace and Rally Software
    Feature
    Planview ProjectPlace
    -
    Ratings
    Rally Software
    7.3
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings6.33 Ratings
    Code Review00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Code Collaboration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
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    Score7.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Planview ProjectPlaceRally Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (198 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (75 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (72 ratings)
    5.7
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Planview ProjectPlaceRally Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Planview
    Planview ProjectPlace is a vibrant platform that manages all activities and schedules different roles based on their urgency, importance, and requests. Further, Planview ProjectPlace outlines the need for proper documentation with the aim of accurate referencing. Tasks are credibly shared, and proper reporting is enhanced to transform firms' work environment. ; Lastly, Planview ProjectPlace brings sustainable email integration for enterprises.
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    Broadcom
    Rally Software is well suited for large Agile or scrum teams who do sprints and it helps managing sprints and backlogs. It is well suited for organizations who want visibility into work being done and progress. Suitable for tracking is user stories, defects and release planning. Works well with CI CD too. It would not be suitable for small teams or startups. For teams that don't use agile. Teams who want lightweight tools like Jira. Companies with a limited budget.
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    Pros
    Planview
    • Easy of use. Modules are well define.
    • Navigation: Users can use the tool's search functionality to find what they are looking for easily. The home page is configurable to the users' needs.
    • The knowledge center is a key function to understand the tool capabilities.
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    Broadcom
    • There are dashboards that provide friendly and useful metrics at the team, program and portfolio levels which help get an easy and quick visual representation of what's going on.
    • Story management made easier, It offers a quick way of quickly entering a number of user stories without losing the overview, by just typing the title and selecting a few attributes directly in the overview screen.
    • Sprint management is seamless in CA Agile Central . It allows you to drag stories from the backlog to the sprints and back again. When a story is dragged into an sprint, it automatically checks the velocity for that sprint and indicates how many more story points can be chipped in. No more manual checking needed by scrum master with respect to allocation and team velocity.
    • Though CA Agile Central has many inbuilt apps, but it also has an App-SDK that allows you to build free app extensions using JavaScript and HTML. So, as per their needs, teams can customize & build various apps & dashboards.
    • Dashboard is an awesome feature which allows you to select and drag panels with all kinds of graphical information about the current sprints and releases.
    • It offers tremendous support for scaled Agile & almost all scaling frameworks are supported specifically tuned to SAFe .
    • CA Agile Central includes several applications but it also integrates well with Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Eclipse, Subversion, IBM, HP, Salesforce.com and many other products to allow users to organize projects to their specifications. So you can still use Jira at a team level & CA Agile Central at the program & portfolio level for efficient tracking & management.
    • The custom tags are very helpful in segregating the user stories based on the project needs. Even though it's a very small feature, it is very effective ( you will realize why specifically if you are using Jira).
    • CA Central Agile enables agile delivery with ease and provides comprehensive features to track time-boxes, Work In Progress items of the forecast increments.
    • Backlog management is hassle free since you can either drag and drop your user stories to the desired position on the backlog, or change a setting and manually enter priorities as a number.
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    Cons
    Planview
    • Under the time tracking, it would be nice to have a set template that would load each week and not have to click a button to load the previous week's template.
    • Somehow making it more intuitive.
    • Having to add in each service line and each detail that I cover for every service line each week is a bit ridiculous.
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    Broadcom
    • User management is pretty basic and could be better. For example more filters and reports and more ability to do mass updates.
    • The report generator is very, very basic and is not WYSIWYG. It has limited filters to generate reports. Often a Scrum master will need to export data to Excel or a tool like Crystal Reports to get enhanced reporting capability.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Planview
    We're committed now & have >50 users on Projectplace. All our projects are now tracked in the tool. We this investment of time & training, the cost of maintaining Projectplace is relatively low for the benefit. So we will renew, even if there are some idiosyncrasies in the tool & there are opportunities for improvement.
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    Broadcom
    • 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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    Usability
    Planview
    Easy to use platform and provides the user with an amazing experience and straightforward tools that empower and help execute tasks with fast performances that allow quick and easy service delivery. Easy on implementation and get started immediately with enterprise-ready Planview Projectplace and start to connect with teams and departments at once.
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    Broadcom
    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Planview
    No downtime-issues since the implementation. It has been very stable
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    Broadcom
    Don’t recall ever being unavailable.
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    Performance
    Planview
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    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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    Support Rating
    Planview
    I haven't needed to get in touch with support because the product is quite well structured and understandable. There were no issues initially when making payments or later for monthly payments. The project manager using the software is quite skilled in the software and has not needed much help. New licenses are easy to acquire, and there is no delay in getting them. I know there are several ways of support available, so that's a plus.
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    Broadcom
    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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    Online Training
    Planview
    No answers on this topic
    Broadcom
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Planview
    create an extensive change management process to help folks embrace the change
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    Broadcom
    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 envirements All the stake holders has to be on the same page
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    Alternatives Considered
    Planview
    [In my experience] Jira is more refined, better looking, and easier to become familiar with. Also, the massive market share of Jira helps in consultancy as you can switch between clients easily. Projectplace has many powerful tools but so does Jira, and Jira integrates with our suite of software much easier compared to Projectplace.
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    Broadcom
    Rally and Asana have comparable features and are both valuable project management tools, but Asana's user interface is well-organized and highly intuitive. It's easy to add tasks and collaborators, edit due dates, indicate progress on tasks, close out projects, etc. However, Rally's interface is somewhat cluttered and difficult to navigate. My team ended up choosing Asana over Rally due to these concerns.
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    Scalability
    Planview
    It is a bit more difficult to fluently use in large scale implementations
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    Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    Planview
    • [We have the] ability to support remote work through projects that scale across multiple groups
    • We have large-scale quarterly projects, so the ability to save and duplicate project templates are helpful for us to keep track of tasks down to the specific card
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    Broadcom
    • it helped organizing many of the processes management use to communicate tasks with engineers, and provided detailed charts on the speed/blockage during any iteration
    • with time Rally became the main tool we used to track and report tasks/defects in our projects, but frequent service outages made it very hard to continue consider as a reliable solution
    • too much features is good, but for engineers a few features (User Stories section, iterations, defects, and Kanban boards) are necessary and the rest is just noise
    • Kanban board support is lacking
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    ScreenShots

    Planview ProjectPlace Screenshots

    Screenshot of Collaborative Workstream: Streamlined interaction between activities, boards and cards. Users can plan and follow up in the Gantt while their teams execute and collaborate for optimum productivity on the Kanban boards.Screenshot of Document Management: This helps to ensure changes to documents are visible in real-time. Version control ensures that team members see the latest document versions with access to document history.Screenshot of Gantt Charts: These support planning and visualizing every step of enterprise work and projects with Projectplace Gantt Charts. Track progress to make sure you'll meet your deadlines and know when things are not happening on time.Screenshot of Kanban Boards: This enables teams to execute and collaborate for optimum productivity, and includes activity notifications, messaging and visualizations of progress of day-to-day tasks.Screenshot of Workload View: A visualization of the workload of members in all workspaces, used to determine whether a team member is overloaded with work, or has room to do more.Screenshot of Workspace Overview: This offers an overview of all work and tasks that have been assigned across all workspaces. Personal tasks can be added that help offer a more complete picture of what's left to do.