#1 most frequent
United States of America
72.2%1,387 installations of 1,921
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
Product Demos
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
DevOps Tool Integrations
Product includes or natively integrates with DevOps tools such as testing, deployment, or code management.
Category average: 7.8
Code Review
Product allows developers to perform code reviews.
Category average: 7.4
Who Buys & Uses Rally Software
#2 most frequent
India
6.8%131 installations of 1,921
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.2%81 installations of 1,921
Rally Software Project Management Review
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
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
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
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
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
