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Rally Software
Formerly CA Agile Central

Overview

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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Powerful Agile DevOps Planning and Tracking: Many reviewers have found Rally to be a powerful tool for agile DevOps planning and tracking. …
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Review of Rally

7 out of 10
February 01, 2018
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It is used by multiple departments across the organization. It helps us to streamline and in the functioning of multiple projects running …
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10 out of 10
October 25, 2017
Incentivized
Our Product and Engineering teams rely solely on CA Agile Central for all aspects of our Application Lifecycle Management. We coordinate …
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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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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 7.6.

The most common users of Rally Software are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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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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Score 6 out of 10
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  • 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.
Assuming we were paying - right now my group gets it for free as the broader engineering organization pays for it. There would be switching costs. There would be pretty minimal data migration, but the biggest cost is getting people to learn a new tool and starting off on the right footing. Evaluation and identification of the right product is a big part of switching too.
Our core engineering team in our division pays for the application. As a company, we pay $35 / month per person for the Enterprise Edition. In my team, we are living with it because it’s free to us. If I were to evaluate new tools, I would look at Pivotal Tracker again, and also have a look at Altasian. They have a big product suite that some of the team has used before.
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Software Engineering
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One person in our division is the main POC for Rally. In our team, we do everything internally – minimal assistance is required.
  • 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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We would have spent more time in a pilot mode. It would have been helpful to have a single team trial it exhaustively to determine if it was a good fit.
  • Implemented in-house
We just got access and started creating projects. There is no formal implementation. If you have different products/teams – it’s good to separate them out. There are many levels at which you can differentiate structure- custom fields, field values. You need to think through how common are your projects vs. how different and implement categories at appropriate level based upon that. Make good use of tags on stories so you can group them together. You can tag features too. There are different ways to get different views into the data. You really need to think those through.
  • Online training
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.
It seems a little needlessly complex
Keep it simple. While it's tempting to add lots of custom fields it becomes difficult to maintain consistent usage across a large team. Consequently the data become unreliable.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
We added some pre-built plugins. It was easy to do. Based on the plug-ins we saw we wouldn't have spent the time customizing it ourself.
The hook into Subversion didn't seem fully supported, although it did work. Made us wonder if it would break at a later date due to Rally upgrades.
No
Never used it. Have just used online help.
No
  • 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
We are trying to plan iterations where you pull stories off a backlog and into a sprint. There’s a screen which looks like it’s supposed to represent where you’d plan all your iterations. We have not been able to get the system to display what we want for inclusion, and we are technical. There are situations where people cannot see certain stories. It’s confounding. Sometimes its because of permissions, but other times it happens for bizarre reasons. We’ve had to delete and recreate stories in order for them to show-up. It’s either buggy, or the nature of its configurability makes it more complex than it needs to be.
Don’t recall ever being unavailable.
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.
  • Subversion version control system.
Integration to Subversion required a custom module script to be installed. It shows that the check in of the code was prompted by the story. Rally provides a proof of concept/ reference implementation, but the team had to implement it. It is not as bad as it looks. I thought it would be hard.
  • Not at this time
I was not involved in negotiating terms
Yes
Yes, Rally lived up to the SaaS standard of carefree upgrades
No
No
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