Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Rally Software
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Rally 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
Redmine
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Redmine is a project management web application written using the Ruby on Rails framework. It is cross-platform and cross-database, and free to download and use as an open source project available on the GNU 2.0 license.
$0
per month
Trello
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Trello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.
$6
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Standard
$6
per month per user
Premium
$12.50
per month per user
Enterprise
$17.50
per month per user
Free
Forever Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Rally SoftwareRedmineTrello
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing and for larger numbers of users.
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Community Pulse
Rally SoftwareRedmineTrello
Considered Multiple Products
Rally Software
Chose Rally Software
I did not select Rally; it was chosen by the organization. If I were choosing what to use within my own team, I would use Trello. It's free, very simple to use, and has a much nicer user interface. My company previously used VersionOne however, and I prefer Rally over that …
Chose Rally Software
Our evaluation was done many years ago, but at the time Rally provided the best mix of SCRUM-driven features, visibility and economy for our product engineering teams.
Redmine
Chose Redmine
Redmine is much for granular than Trello. The detail and record tracking in Redmine can't really be compared to that in Trello. While they can both track things and there is a record of changes... Redmine is more detailed and more geared toward long term projects where Trello
Chose Redmine
It can beat other services only as free, open source solution. Right now we've moved to JIRA, and Redmine only stays on as an archive and is used by our editor's department.
Chose Redmine
I think that although they are tools for managing equipment and tools for bugs tracking, Redmine has a great advantage since it can be integrated with many third-party tools and that is the only tool of this type with which I have been able to integrate and integrate systems. …
Trello
Chose Trello
Trello gives a better visibility and Freemium account to start with
Chose Trello
Trello has less integrated features but is a very intuitive platform for task management for no cost. Its mobile app is a superb product that is invaluable for staying on top of your day to day tasks. Rally often gets bogged down by some of its complexity, but that is not the …
Chose Trello
We compared a few other project management programs and Trello was by far the easiest and most affordable to use. The fact that is is straight forward and simply made it even more compelling as we knew there wouldn't be a huge learning curve with our staff, while other …
Chose Trello
Because it is a very simple and intuitive software to manage, it makes it very easy to explain to a new user and for them to quickly grasp the trick to the tool. For that reason, it is an easy choice for managing projects. Besides being a free tool, you don't have to complete a …
Features
Rally SoftwareRedmineTrello
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Rally Software
7.8
4 Ratings
4% above category average
Redmine
8.2
13 Ratings
6% above category average
Trello
8.5
222 Ratings
9% above category average
Task Management8.84 Ratings10.013 Ratings9.5222 Ratings
Resource Management8.04 Ratings7.012 Ratings9.3185 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.04 Ratings9.012 Ratings7.173 Ratings
Scheduling8.84 Ratings7.011 Ratings9.1168 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.84 Ratings6.910 Ratings8.9147 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.84 Ratings8.010 Ratings7.6115 Ratings
Document Management7.34 Ratings10.011 Ratings8.2159 Ratings
Email integration8.54 Ratings8.010 Ratings7.7146 Ratings
Mobile Access7.03 Ratings5.59 Ratings9.1192 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.33 Ratings9.011 Ratings9.388 Ratings
Change request and Case Management6.73 Ratings7.012 Ratings8.7102 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.33 Ratings7.011 Ratings7.773 Ratings
Search7.34 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools8.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.09 Ratings8.2142 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.012 Ratings9.0218 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
Rally Software
7.3
4 Ratings
8% below category average
Redmine
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Ratings
Trello
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Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations6.33 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review6.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Collaboration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation7.84 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers8.34 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Rally Software
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Ratings
Redmine
8.0
8 Ratings
3% above category average
Trello
5.9
72 Ratings
27% below category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings7.33 Ratings6.149 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings7.82 Ratings5.042 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings9.06 Ratings6.658 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.92 Ratings6.144 Ratings
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User Ratings
Rally SoftwareRedmineTrello
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(20 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
9.4
(222 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(4 ratings)
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10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(8 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.4
(60 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.7
(5 ratings)
6.5
(3 ratings)
9.9
(81 ratings)
In-Person Training
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(0 ratings)
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
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8.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(1 ratings)
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5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Open Source
Redmine is a perfect solution for businesses that are looking for a FREE and open source solution for project management. It is great for teams that are managing numerous tasks or projects at one time. Redmine is easy to set up and is fairly self-explanatory for anyone who is semi tech-savvy.
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Atlassian
For teams or individuals with lots of individual tasks/details to track, Trello is perfect! It basically removes the need for a paper checklist. For those that need an overall project management tool that requires less tasks and more overarching goals, collaboration amongst various teams, and gantt charts I would suggest monday.com
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Pros
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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Open Source
  • Issue Tracker - Redmine allows in-depth issue tracking complete with workflows and customization.
  • Release Tracker - Redmine allows releases to be tracked by milestones, collecting relevant issues in each milestone.
  • Agile Management - With a few free or low-cost add-ons, Redmine becomes a great tool for Agile project management
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Atlassian
  • Helps track employees "to do before hire", "to do after hired," and "to do when employee leaves"
  • Provides important information on each employee like personal information along with data collected during the time of hire and during employment time
  • Allows more than one person to be assigned to a task per employee and will remain open until everyone involved has completed their task
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Cons
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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Open Source
  • The design and user-interface are a little outdated. It looks like a product that was designed ten years ago and doesn't have a polished look and feel like newer apps have.
  • It's not particularly designed to support agile-based project management methodologies such as Scrum.
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Atlassian
  • I use colour coding a lot so I would like a wider range of colour options.
  • Also as a visual thinker I would like to be able to easily add images to cards.
  • I would like to be able to attach a wider range of file formats to cards.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
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Usability
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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Open Source
Redmine is a great product to have in an organization. It's extremely flexible, costs much less to maintain than other alternatives, and as a tool, it is relatively fast to get experienced with. The primary advantages of working with Redmine are: flexible platform, API, open-source and highly configurable, stability.
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Atlassian
Trello is incredibly intuitive, both on desktop and mobile right away. It is also full of helpful features that make it even easier to use, and is flexible enough to suit almost any organizational need. Onboarding for the software is thorough, but concise, and the service is frequently updated with even more QOL improvements.
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Reliability and Availability
Broadcom
Don’t recall ever being unavailable.
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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
yes always support available when I need it!
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Performance
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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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Never experienced issues with the above!
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Support Rating
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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Open Source
Redmine is free, easy to use and it's everything you could want in a free project management program. The fact that it has wiki integration and that it can track on such a granular level is amazing. Assigning tasks to other users, such as our development team, is fantastic and ensures we are always up-to-date on where we are what - on what projects.
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Atlassian
I haven't reached out to their support very often and their support is very limited anyway for the free users. They do have tons of great articles and videos in their Help Center and constantly send emails with updates and add-ons to the product. The fact that I've barely ever had to contact their support team means that they've developed a great product.
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In-Person Training
Broadcom
No answers on this topic
Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
It was helpful and informative! It was back before the pandemic in 2019 so I'm not sure if they still do it but I really enjoyed the experience
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Online Training
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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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Open Source
Jira is a great project management tool for software product life cycle management for an agile environment based on agile methodologies. Jira is an intuitive and modernized user interface design compared with Redmine but Redmine is a lightweight and affordable project management and task tracking solution with its essential features and functionalities.
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Atlassian
Trello is more simple and not as "robust" as the other tools, but it's easier to use and manage and understand and ACTUALLY get stuff done with. It's simplicity is part of the beauty of using it. You don't need a million options that nobody uses, you just need to get stuff done.
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Scalability
Broadcom
No answers on this topic
Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Feels like anyone across the org (no matter their location) can use the tool easily!
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Professional Services
Broadcom
No answers on this topic
Open Source
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Not sure if we use those
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Return on Investment
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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Open Source
  • Customers receive updates on all progress made for their issues -- this results in an informed customer who is being given transparency on all steps of our process.
  • Customers have responded well from being able to not have to track down emails and instead come to a central place for requests.
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Atlassian
  • Trello keeps me organized, focused, and on track. I could filter the Trello board to only see my issues and understand what I needed to work on and when.
  • Trello helped our team implement an agile structure. It's a very simple kanban method of viewing all of your team's tasks and statuses. You can completely customize the columns to your team's specific workflow and create tags relevant to your work.
  • Trello helps reduce unnecessary communications between teams. When I want to request translations, I simply create a card on the localization Trello board -- no need to directly message anyone on the team, and I can watch the status of the card change from "in progress" to "in review" to "translated," all without having to directly ask for updates.
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