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Why we switched from CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)
February 21, 2017

Why we switched from CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)

Dmitry Shyshkin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)

We used CA Agile Central for our agile process. It was used by the whole company, in all departments. We had our user stories, tasks, and defects in there. We tracked our working hours in Rally also. We are an agile company with two-week sprints, and we used CA Agile Central (formerly Rally) to plan our development work.
  • Plan sprints for agile/scrum lifecycle
  • Create and submit software defects
  • Create user stories and tasks
  • Not too user friendly interface
  • Defect management is not the best I have seen
  • Could add more fields for defects
We used CA Agile Central (formerly Rally) before but recently switched to JIRA. I used JIRA before Rally too, and I think it was easier to manage defects in JIRA. Also, I think JIRA is better for teams and companies that want to implement agile/scrum life cycles. It's easier to see in JIRA what all a team is working on, what stories/defects/activities, etc.
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.