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Rally Software

Score7.7 out of 10

128 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Rally Software?

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.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Rally Software has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 128 ratings of Rally Software's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Scheduling

    Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.

    Category average: 8

  • Support for Agile Methodology

    Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.

    Category average: 8.5

Areas for Improvement

  • Change request and Case Management

    Change request and change management enables tracking of all customer requests including priority and timeframe.

    Category average: 7.2

  • DevOps Tool Integrations

    Product includes or natively integrates with DevOps tools such as testing, deployment, or code management.

    Category average: 8

  • Code Review

    Product allows developers to perform code reviews.

    Category average: 7.5

Reviews

What users are saying about Rally Software.
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Rally Software Project Management Review

Incentivized
Peter LucanView profile
Software Engineer II in Information Technology at Unum Ireland (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization we use Rally Software to manage our agile process and track User stories, defects and tasks and coordinate work across teams. Rally Software solves business problems like allowing our stakeholders and management to see into project progress. It also helps prioritize work and improves collaboration by allowing us to see what we are working on. It enables us to break down large features into smaller manageable user stories and tasks. Then it makes it easier to assign work and monitor sprint progress. Our use case includes sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, PI planning and reporting velocity and release status. Rally Software allows us to ensure that our development efforts align with business goals and helps us deliver features with a higher degree of predictability.

Pros

  • Rally Software makes it easier to split large pieces of work into smaller pieces.
  • Rally Software enables visibility into work progress and what work people are working on.
  • Rally Software makes it easier to plan work and estimate releases.

Cons

  • The user interface feels clunky at times and it's not the easiest to find things.
  • When batch moving stories it can be slow and confusing.
  • Rally Software has a weird session state. When I turn off my laptop and then turn it on the next day I expect when I reopen the tab that Rally Software will re log me in or at least refresh but it just brings up and alert and continuously fails. I have to reopen it on a new tab.

Return on Investment

  • Rally Software has made it easier to deliver projects on time. It has done this by increasing transparency and accountability across teams.
  • It helped us achieve business goals.
  • More predictable releases.
  • Rally Software is complex and has a steep learning curve and this can slow things done sometimes when it comes to onboarding and adoption.
  • At times, time is spent on Rally Software where it could just be spent doing meaningful work.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

Miro, GitHub Copilot, Figma

Software that works for your team

Incentivized
Chad HowellView profile
Scrum Master in Information Technology at Great American Insurance Group (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Rally to help track the work teams are doing. This allow leadership to self serve on where projects are and if there are any issues they need to help with. We also use it to help track metrics for each team, allowing us to see where we can improve and where we are doing well.

Pros

  • Customization of field and values
  • Tracking status of work
  • dashboards

Cons

  • individual project customization. allowing full customization between individual projects
  • metrics for projects
  • better query language

Return on Investment

  • Allows leadership to view project timelines and status
  • Helps keep teams on track so that projects don't miss deadlines

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

ConnectALL, ServiceNow Now Platform, Microsoft 365

Best in Project management and Deliverables tracking Capacity planning

Incentivized
Punnareddy PallerlaView profile
Sr Software Engineer in Information Technology at sabre (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Rally for Project management , Tasks management. it helps users to track productivity and project quality in easy manner and the Kanban Board shows a visualization of user stories and features throughout the entire life cycle from idea to delivery, we can see, Prioritized, unscheduled ,unplanned work. all can be tracked with proper setup.

Pros

  • Iteration status page for each project
  • Teamwise allocation of stories and tracking the work
  • Reporting of points completed for each sprint
  • Easy to track and update the status of user story or project

Cons

  • Definitely in Reporting can be improved
  • User interface can be changed to new advanced pages view
  • Projects can be compared in the current year or for particular time

Return on Investment

  • Improved the tracking of project status and estimation
  • Reporting made easy for showcasing the deliverables
  • Made easy for Assigning the work and presenting for the scrum calls

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce CMS and Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

Qlik Analytics Platform, Salesforce Lightning Platform, Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Good tool can do better to stand out

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Broadcom Rally for test management and defect management purposes.

Pros

  • In epic, feature, user story creation
  • In creating bug
  • In linking bug to user story or epic

Cons

  • Ui can be more intuitive and colorful
  • Lacks animation and tool integration
  • Should be more configurable

Return on Investment

  • Rally is able to reduce test management drastically by 40%
  • Defect management including bug creation. Assignment to relevant team and resolution within sla has improved prod deployment efficiency by about 25%

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, IntelliJ IDEA, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT

Powerful Agile Tool

Incentivized
Kathy DingView profile
Design V&V Engineer in Research & Development at Philips Respironics (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Great to use as a requirements repository for software
  • Great for creating sprints and assigning user stories as work
  • Great for exporting requirements and defects for reporting

Cons

  • The UI for sprint work is not visually as helpful as Jira's
  • Cannot customize fields within defects and user stories within different teams if a different team owns the license

Return on Investment

  • Created a positive and efficient experience to help push agile into our teams
  • Provided a great tracking tool for more visibility into what the work is on a team
  • Had consistent linkage between all the item IDs to be able to create all the required documents

Alternatives Considered

Jira Software

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Alma Suite, IBM Rational DOORS

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