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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.
User interface could be more intuitive
Powerful Agile Tool
CA Rally Delivers Information in a Not So Intuitive Manner
Rally helped me to deliver successfully several projects for our customers.
Best-suited to large organizations
Want the best of Agilecraft (Scaling Agile support) & ALM (Test Management), go for CA Agile Central (Rally)
Review of Rally
Love Rally!
More than adequate, but disappointing and getting more so over time.
CA Agile Central is the cream of the crop
Why we switched from CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)
CA Agile Central (formerly Rally): it was good while it lasted
Can't live without Rally
Rally - very extensive but pricey (worth it?)
Seems to make things harder rather than easier!
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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.
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Rally Software Competitors
- Digital.ai TeamForge
- IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
- PTC Windchill RV&S
- Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS)
Rally Software Technical Details
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Powerful Agile DevOps Planning and Tracking: Many reviewers have found Rally to be a powerful tool for agile DevOps planning and tracking. It provides rapid visibility of progress or problems across a large number of teams, allowing users to effectively manage and prioritize tasks.
Portfolio View for Clear Visibility: Reviewers appreciate the portfolio view feature of Rally, as it allows product management to have clear visibility across all their product features. This feature helps in effectively managing and prioritizing tasks by providing a comprehensive overview of the project's progress.
Strong Feedback Metrics for Task Tracking: Users have mentioned that Rally provides strong feedback metrics for both teams and individuals. This feature helps in tracking the status of tasks and ensuring that commitments are being met, contributing to efficient task management.
Difficult to Use Without Training: Many users have expressed frustration with the software's steep learning curve, stating that it is difficult to use without any training or guidance. They find it almost impossible to know how to complete their daily tasks effectively.
Insufficient Online Documentation: Some users have reported a lack of free online documentation available to help them navigate the software. This absence makes it challenging for them to find the information they need and leaves them feeling unsupported.
Overly Complicated User Interface: Several reviewers have mentioned that certain views of the user interface are overly complicated, causing confusion and hindering their ability to perform tasks efficiently. Users suggest simplifying these interfaces would greatly enhance their overall experience with the software.
Users highly recommend CA Agile Central for enterprise product management, highlighting its usefulness in running Agile projects and implementing Agile methodology. It is considered a one-stop tool for project management, reporting, and email notifications. Users suggest sticking with CA Agile Central and utilizing the features that work best for each team, as well as giving it some time to get used to without adapting it too much to the organization.
Reviewers recommend Rally Software over Atlassian Jira, finding it more intuitive and easier to use. They praise Rally as a comprehensive solution for Agile teams, automating the entire Agile practice. Rally is particularly recommended for organizations planning to adopt the Scaled Agile Framework Methodology (SAFe). However, users suggest checking out Jira for more add-ons and cheaper options but still highly recommend Rally over Jira.
Users suggest considering other project/product management tools before making a decision about CA Agile Central's future availability due to recent acquisition concerns. They also recommend thoroughly testing other options in the market that provide similar functionality at a lower cost. Additionally, users highlight that CA Agile Central is well-suited for large organizations and recommend having at least one person familiar with the software for a smoother transition. They also suggest using Assembla instead of CA Agile Central as an alternative option.
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(1-4 of 4)Can't live without Rally
- Agile
- DevOps
- Planning
- Tracking
- Action
- Context Driven Testing
- Level 1 production support
- Vertical in healthcare
- ROI is cool
- Agile is great
- DevOps is the best fit
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- HIPAA regulations compliance
- Migration to new EMR/EPIC
- Risk analysis and testing
- Meaningful use reimbursement
- ICD-10 clinical coding for billing standards
- Infrastructure support (managed services platform)
- Interfacing with HL7 files
- Virtualization on server & storage
- Data storage and security
- Remote desktop & VDI
- Thin clients & Think clients
- Interoperability solutions
- Secure and remote accessibility
- Mobile device integration
- Backup & Storage
- Healthcare Intelligence
- Tech Service Org
- The Scaled Agile Framework®, or SAFe®, provides a recipe for adopting Agile at enterprise scale.
As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe is to the Agile enterprise.
- SAFe tackles the tough issues – architecture, integration, funding, governance and roles at scale. It is field-tested and enterprise-friendly.
- SAFe is the brainchild As Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are to Scrum, Dean Leffingwell is to SAFe.
- SAFe is based on Lean and Agile principles.
- There are three levels in SAFe:
* Team
* Program
* Portfolio
At the Team Level:
- Scrum with XP engineering practices are used.
- Define/Build/Test (DBT) teams deliver working, fully tested software every two weeks. There are five to nine members of each team.
- Rally’s weekly webnar covers the basic practices at the team level.
At the Program Level:
- SAFe defines an Agile Release Train (ART). As iteration is to team, train is to program.
- The ART (or train) is the primary vehicle for value delivery at the program level. It delivers a value stream for the organization.
- EPIC localization
- OnBase upgrade
- UCS swap
- Pure replacement
- Internal sale diffcult
- Budget fight
- License upgrade
- Push to other group
- Expand to infrastructure team
- Get more project swap to agile
- 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.
What I dislike the most is that the experience isn't consistent - some data types can be created, renamed and tweaked extensively, while some others are set in stone and baked into the system. I would rather have that it was very scaled down, and that you could create your own data types for cards, instead of having a few baked-in types (Epic, Feature, UserStory, Request, Bug etc). And the cards are tied to metadata such as Release, Project, User, Role, Effort etc., - these cannot be modified and you cannot use them as you wish. You cannot rename card types or create more, delete unused types etc. You have to choose between points or hours as effort metric - but they don't work the same! Some features are not available when you choose points instead of hours. I'd rather it was only a label choosing "p" instead of "h". Multiple things like the above - some stuff is built-in and can't be changed and it can be very confusing. The API is a mess. Everything can be modified in every request, instead of having separate requests for modifying different objects. For instance: you add a comment to a bug, you have to include the user (as an object, not just an id) that authored the comment. However, if you accidentally input the wrong name for the user (but the correct ID), it will actually *change the name* of that user. WTF? The query language is very useful, but has some subtle bugs and inconsistencies.
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- Vendor Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
To focusing on the process of evaluating and purchasing software once my needs changed.
I might rule out a vendor or two based on what the RFP response tells me.
Time is money & I need to get the job done quick.
- Vendor implemented
- Planning
- Change control
- Compatibility
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
Dedicated attention. The Answer Tech will work with me one-on-one to make sure my software issues are resolved. Help from the comfort of my home. I can stay comfortable in my home or office while my Answer Tech works on my computer remotely.
- Tracking
- Kanban
- Update
- Team work
- Trouble shooting
- Swap
- Down gred
Seems to make things harder rather than easier!
- Gives you a good view into your current active work week/ active sprint
- Provides a pretty good way to look at prior sprints
- It has so much flexibility and power that it actually makes simpler tasks complex – particularly backlog management and scheduling things into releases and sprints.
- It has a tough job of managing “epics” – things with 100s of small features, and being able to prioritize across them. Typically we have 2 epics in a release. We have no problem prioritizing epics, but it is hard to prioritize “stories” across epics. There are typically dozens of stories in an epic.
- It works - we have been able to get the job done. We could probably be doing better with something else.
- It helps us manage sprints, tie into auditing.
- Track what we are doing from sprint to sprint
- Track velocity/progress
- Provides audit trail as we complete work. We can tie the loop off on what code actually changed. This important for SSAE16 compliance.
- We found that the plug-ins offered some nice drag-and-drop functionality when review story status
- We are considering integrating our Ideas board so it will feed directly into Rally
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- Product Reputation
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- Implemented in-house
- Online training
- It was very difficult to manage epics and their child stories.
- Scheduling of stories into sprints was never as easy as I expected it to be
- Subversion version control system.
- Not at this time
Rally Software a great for large self-directed teams
- Rapid visibility of progress or problems across large number of teams.
- Portfolio view allows Product Management clear visibility across all their product features.
- Strong feedback metrics for the team and individuals as to status and meeting commitments.
- Visual UI quickly gives teams visibility into their sprint progress.
- Helps enables Agile structure for widely dispersed teams.
- Supports traditional scrum and also Kanban.
- Completely open API give access to just about everything and enables integration to other systems you may be using.
- Team at Rally is very responsive to needs and feedback. They also have a strong SE team to help with best practices. Pretty easy to get one of their Product Managers on the phone to talk roadmap.
- Strong community to help with questions and their forums are very active.
- Traditional Agile metrics like sprint velocity and burndown are built in, but still challenging to get metrics beyond these.
- Not an inexpensive solution.
- The visibility Rally gives into the actual development activities is phenomenal - for the team themselves as well as management. No need to have big project review meetings - the data is all right there.
- The product is fairly easy to use, which means that the development teams actually use it, as a result they build better sprint plans and are more likely to deliver what was intended by the Product Manager.
- I don't know how you measure precisely the ROI from greater predictability, but it is clearly high. When used with other solid planning processes, the visibility Rally offers can give you much greater predictability of a given team's future performance and of the entire organization as a whole.
- Rally facilitates significant improvements in communication between Product Management and Engineering because it offers visibility and clear connections between business initiatives and individual user stories that the team is delivering.
- Continual improvements in the tool delivered by Rally
- Tight integration with our Agile processes
- Rally still the best tool in this market
- Viewing team and individual status is very easy in the Team status or Iteration status menus.
- A complete view of all features is visible in the Portfolio Items page.
- Burndown charts are right there at the top of every iteration page.
- The landing page has a completely customizable dashboard where each user can add their own apps, reports, lists, etc. Very cool.
- Complete integration available for Eclipse so you can update your task hours right in the IDE.
- If there is a metric not visible in a plug in app or report, then you may have to resort to the API which can be heavy lifting.
Rally - Great for Agile Projects
- It is a software specifically built for Agile team management.
- It covers multiple agile methodologies.
- It is easy to use and learn.
- The hosted version requires no maintenance and works well.
- Hosted version does not always work well on all browsers (minor issue).
- Hosted version makes it free from internal IT maintenance and involvement.
- Hosted version is available without needing to be on the company network.
- Replaced a more complex and expensive solution.