Overall Satisfaction
- Rapid visibility of progress or problems across large number of teams.
- Portfolio view allows Product Management clear visibility across all their product features.
- Strong feedback metrics for the team and individuals as to status and meeting commitments.
- Visual UI quickly gives teams visibility into their sprint progress.
- Helps enables Agile structure for widely dispersed teams.
- Supports traditional scrum and also Kanban.
- Completely open API give access to just about everything and enables integration to other systems you may be using.
- Team at Rally is very responsive to needs and feedback. They also have a strong SE team to help with best practices. Pretty easy to get one of their Product Managers on the phone to talk roadmap.
- Strong community to help with questions and their forums are very active.
- Traditional Agile metrics like sprint velocity and burndown are built in, but still challenging to get metrics beyond these.
- Not an inexpensive solution.
- 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.
Usability
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Viewing team and individual status is very easy in the Team status or Iteration status menus.
- A complete view of all features is visible in the Portfolio Items page.
- Burndown charts are right there at the top of every iteration page.
- The landing page has a completely customizable dashboard where each user can add their own apps, reports, lists, etc. Very cool.
- Complete integration available for Eclipse so you can update your task hours right in the IDE.
- If there is a metric not visible in a plug in app or report, then you may have to resort to the API which can be heavy lifting.
Yes, but I don't use it