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Rally Software
Formerly CA Agile Central

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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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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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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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Love Rally!

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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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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February 22, 2022

User interface could be more intuitive

Verified User
Employee in Research & Development
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Rally is well suited to help outline the specific tasks of a project, create timelines, indicate progress/status of tasks and provide views of team members' workloads. My team used it for our weekly stand up meetings in order to update one another on our progress, and our manager used it as a way to determine who had capacity for additional tasks. It facilitated our transition to a more agile work environment and we used it to implement 2 week "sprints".
May 21, 2020

Powerful Agile Tool

Kathy Ding | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kathy Ding
Design V&V Engineer
Philips Respironics (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I find being able to go to a page to see just defects, user stories, test cases, etc. is very helpful. You cannot do that in Jira and that is a big usability limitation. In Rally Software, it is really easy to change the statuses of the stories right on the dashboard page, which is great during a live planning meeting. The export tools work really well and have helped with reporting and building out trace matrices within a regulated industry.
April 27, 2020

CA Rally Delivers Information in a Not So Intuitive Manner

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
CA Rally is well suited to companies where upper management needs a view of what is going on. It is well suited for that. For Scrum Master, Devs, and Product Owners it is overly complicated and hard to figure out just which screen to go to in order to get the needed information. It is maybe better for an established company. Startups or midsized companies are probably better off with Jira.
September 03, 2019

Rally helped me to deliver successfully several projects for our customers.

Evgueny Lemasov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Evgueny Lemasov
Tech Team Lead, PM, Accounting Software developer
DiatomEnterprises (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
It is perfect when:
  • You need to track and improve velocity
  • You have a budget and you must control time
  • Requirements are changing often
  • Requirements are changing in the middle of the iteration
  • You have to organize the work of developers and QA simultaneously
August 01, 2019

Best-suited to large organizations

Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would imagine that Rally is fantastic from the perspective of someone overseeing a large organization. Having everyone on the same feature-rich tool means that every team can customize it (to a degree) for their needs while still providing useful metrics upward. However, for small organizations or single teams, it is probably overkill.
June 03, 2018

Want the best of Agilecraft (Scaling Agile support) & ALM (Test Management), go for CA Agile Central (Rally)

Sourav Singla ,Safe Agilist, CSP, ICP-ACC, CSM, CSPO, SSM, LSSG | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sourav Singla ,Safe Agilist, CSP, ICP-ACC, CSM, CSPO, SSM, LSSG
Enterprise Agile Coach
Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
If your organisation is planning to adopt Scaled Agile Framework Methodology (SAFe) without being worried about cost, CA Agile Central is one of the best tools. Here, you can look at various release trains and how that then flows up to the overall program budget. You can look holistically across all the release trains with minimal effort and have it flow up to the program office’s budget. It also helps by easily maintaining backlogs and integrating more seamlessly into software developers releases, iterations, and features. It has no conformance issue as it supports almost all the browsers like IE from version 8.0, Firefox from 3.6 and the newest versions of Chrome (from 6.0) and Safari (from 4.0).
February 01, 2018

Review of Rally

Verified User
Team Lead in Quality Assurance
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Works well for scrum projects. Defect tracking and Test Management are available. Not very user-friendly for test case creation though. Portfolio Management allows Release Planning & Tracking, Capacity Planning, and Timelines. Additional (and better) Test Management plugins are available at $25/user/month.
October 25, 2017

Love Rally!

Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for one or many SCRUM development teams with five or more people. For distributed teams, CA Agile Central's shared content management is great with no on-site IT overhead. For singular, small teams with concise product portfolios and few or no integration requirements, there are better, no-cost options in the market.
June 09, 2017

More than adequate, but disappointing and getting more so over time.

Bob Lieberman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bob Lieberman
Agile Coach for Technology Development
Steelcase (Furniture, 10,001+ employees)
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Standard Scrum from story grooming to delivery is good. Allocating features to releases is not good because in order to visualize you also have to assign stories to releases. Release management in general uses a narrow and often inscrutable conceptual model, so we have avoided it. We use milestones instead but they have only limited support.
April 25, 2017

CA Agile Central is the cream of the crop

Joseph Ruffolo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joseph Ruffolo
Strategic Analyst
Aon National Flood Services (Insurance, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The only scenario we have had some issues with is when we need to work with an organization outside of our domain that uses a Waterfall process. CA Agile Central doesn't adapt well into a hybrid methodology like ScrumFall or pure Waterfall. In all other scenarios of large or small projects CA Agile Central has worked very well.
February 21, 2017

Why we switched from CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)

Dmitry Shyshkin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dmitry Shyshkin
Lead QA Automation Engineer‏
FareCompare.com (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We used it in our company for the last few years but decided to switch to JIRA. Our management thinks that JIRA will work better for our wannabe true agile company. It was not hard to see all user stories in backlog, but it's harder to find a specific story/defect report using filters. Also, I don't think Rally is the best tool for agile teams.
May 27, 2016

CA Agile Central (formerly Rally): it was good while it lasted

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Information Technology and Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Rally is a great tool for large teams with very good experience in the agile world. It's not well-suited for those little, get-things-done teams, since managing the whole platform becomes really a job by itself. Teams generally might have to consider having a dedicated member in the team to manage and administrate the tool and facilitate communicate with all team members regarding tasks flow and updates. If your team is active, that will generate a lot of noise in the landing page making it hard to focus on one aspect.
March 30, 2016

Can't live without Rally

Henry PAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
Henry PAN
NAS SME, ESE
Providence Health & Services (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
DevOps for agile environment is a better fit. It is less about who does it, and more about the code meets the acceptance criteria. Companies often have specific lead times, hence release planning is helpful. Rally Software is very well suited to a deployment environment and in some scenarios which should consist of a QA person as well as BA, developer and operations working together.
February 15, 2016

Rally - very extensive but pricey (worth it?)

Megan Kakitsubo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Megan Kakitsubo
Technical Producer
Connexity, Inc. (Internet, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe this software is good for small-medium sized teams. The team I am on (operations) is at most five people that is actively using it and the other teams also have about that many people on a team. It can be used for a larger enterprise as the company is on the larger side; but it is more suited for a smaller scenario. It is also great for companies that are looking for a web based software as everything is online and a company would not have to rely on their own IT department to run the features of this platform. If a company is looking for an extensive Agile software and can afford Rally's price tag, this just might be the software for them.
December 02, 2013

Seems to make things harder rather than easier!

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
November 22, 2013

Rally Software a great for large self-directed teams

Gary Allison | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gary Allison
Vice President Research & Development
E2open (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Their pricing structure is pretty flat - you get lower per seat prices with more seats obviously. Buying at end of quarter will sometimes get you a little better price, but not huge savings. Sometime in the past, I was able to get a discount for being a reference, but now that they have grown and are gaining in market position, this is probably less the case. I have found them extremely easy to work with overall. Never had a problem.
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