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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)
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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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(1-16 of 16)User interface could be more intuitive
- Agile team work
- Work load management
- Tracking project progression and success metrics
- Tracking individual performance
Powerful Agile Tool
- 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
- It supports our version and Agile and we have been able to deliver because of it.
- It is complicated. A tool should not be complicated but rather easy to use. Rally is not.
- It is a lot costlier than tools such as Jira.
- Rally Software allows us to understand what was done and how much time & labor was in every task of your project.
Best-suited to large organizations
- It lets our scrum master collect monthly metrics for our team, which we use to adapt our practices to be more efficient
- It organizes the organization's initiatives nicely, and allows easy conversation based on the epic/feature code
- It slightly slows down and frustrates the development team I'm on, due to the cons I already mentioned
Want the best of Agilecraft (Scaling Agile support) & ALM (Test Management), go for CA Agile Central (Rally)
- We has improved our accuracy in estimating release capacity and timelines and tracking team throughput.
- Team collaboration has improved which is critical for us as teams were distributed at three locations. The Big Room Planning feature allows teams to identify the work to be done as well as dependencies and challenges. It helps team members to stay on the same page.
- CA Agile Central has customized dashboards to view information in Scrum, Kanban or custom views. It helps senior management in closely tracking their releases & helps them in taking corrective action in case they feel milestones will not be met.
- We are able to deliver every sprint into production since Continuous Integration environment has been setup with ease using github integration with CA Agile Central.
Review of Rally
- Positive was - it helped multiple teams to use the same tool.
- No negatives yet.
Love Rally!
- We were able to increase our release cadence from one major release every 12-18 months to one release to production every 3-5 weeks, depending on product set.
- Over many quarters - and ultimately years - of use, we were able to plan for seasonal spikes in support and new feature delivery based on known throughput from previous time periods. No spreadsheets!
- Using the inherent status visibility of CA Agile Central, we gained anywhere from 2-10 hours of time per user by eliminating meetings, status check calls and user-generated weekly status updates.
- Positive: fast ramp up didn't crash and burn
- Negative: obscures business value of features... the implementation of that kind of view is minimal
CA Agile Central is the cream of the crop
- Moving from Waterfall to Scrum or Kanban has been a big win for us. The adaptability and customization of CA Agile Central has aided in our success.
- Agile methodologies and CA Agile Central has made it easier to integrate business product owners into an agile team.
- it helped organizing many of the processes management use to communicate tasks with engineers, and provided detailed charts on the speed/blockage during any iteration
- with time Rally became the main tool we used to track and report tasks/defects in our projects, but frequent service outages made it very hard to continue consider as a reliable solution
- too much features is good, but for engineers a few features (User Stories section, iterations, defects, and Kanban boards) are necessary and the rest is just noise
- Kanban board support is lacking
Can't live without Rally
- ROI is cool
- Agile is great
- DevOps is the best fit
Rally - very extensive but pricey (worth it?)
- +Rally has definitely achieved employee efficiency as working on Agile softwares that have an easy to see Kanban board allows project managers to track progress easily (and thus assessing road blocks without wasting much time).
- +As a person that started less than 6 months ago, being able to look into the histories of user stories that were completed by my team before I joined has allowed me to study the responsibilities that come with my role and team.
- - I used to use a different Agile software which had a better UI for the dashboard for editing stories, so it took a while to get used to having to click into each story to edit/add more details and read into them.
Seems to make things harder rather than easier!
- 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.
Rally Software a great for large self-directed teams
- 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.
Rally - Great for Agile Projects
- 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.