Rally Software Reviews

“Heavyweight Agile tool

Pros

It can do nearly anything an agile team needs to manage the process and organization of work.

Cons

The UI is very bland and could really use some UX improvements.

“Agile methodology in the cloud

Pros

It is a great way for me to communicate company-wide. It is easy to create user stories and break them down into tasks. The latest UI upgrade was a significant improvement.

Cons

It gets laggy sometimes, and I can't see attached images properly when there is more than one image. These are mostly small quirks, but all in all, it's a good product.

“Nice tool but still missing key items

Pros

It helps me break all the user stories into many items and assign them to the relevant team, including effort estimation. Then I can easily extract reports.

Cons

The main issue is that it does not show plan vs. actual, so it does not indicate anything if I am at 70%, compared to what? Reports should be easy to change from private to public.

“Ca Agile Central - Central for Agile methodologies

Pros

The software is built around agile methodologies and is best suited for projects using agile. It is easy to use, assign work to the respective team and resources, and tailor-made for projects involving multiple teams. Monitoring and status of work can be easily determined. Dashboards and reports are inbuilt and customizable. Separate tabs for sprint planning and different workflow stages like Backlog, analysis, development, test readiness, and test execution are helpful. It integrates well with CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins and SonarQube.

Cons

There are very few field options available. We were using ALM before moving to Agile Central, and all the fields in ALM were not mapped to CA Agile. It was difficult to map the fields since there are very few field options. Customization and report creation during the initial phase were very difficult. I need to depend on the Scrum Master to make process changes. The initial setup of the process was difficult, and the transition of people from Waterfall to Agile using CA Agile was challenging.

“Best Agile Management Tool

Pros

The best features for me are user story management, burn down/burn up chart, velocity calculation, easy reporting, agile lifecycle management, and distributed team management using Kanban methodology.

Cons

I feel this is the best tool, which really can't be debated.

“Great agile tool!

Pros

Rally helps me manage user stories and plan for iterations. Managing backlogs is helpful, ensuring that items are not missed or ignored.

Cons

Learning the tool took a while for me; training could be better.

“A useful tool for Agile Project Management

Pros

I find the web-based interface intuitive. It supports Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and other agile frameworks. It is scalable enough to support multiple teams and portfolios. I can create backlogs, plan iterations and releases, create stories and milestones, and capture many useful fields to reduce documentation requirements. Story dependencies are easy to track. The discussion tab allows capturing useful discussions and data for collaboration on stories, features, or initiatives. Parent-child relationships can be established between stories. Multiple reports can be generated to measure performance and productivity. The iteration and Kanban boards provide a real-time view of team progress.

Cons

It does not work well with the Internet Explorer browser. The license cost is high compared to other tools like JIRA.

“Rally works, but they need to stop constantly updating the UI, which is overly complex

Pros

I can link tasks to stories, and stories to features, providing ways to track everything. It allows me to provide detailed information within the stories and acceptance criteria.

Cons

It takes too much effort to link stories to features, and it is too hard to see the details on the features if they are similarly named. Task creation and advancing are easy, but the page layout of stories is now convoluted and confusing.

“Rally for Agile Project Management and Portfolio Management

Pros

Integration and customization support allow me to interface with our internal applications.

Cons

I would like to see continued expansion of the portfolio and program management roll-up and reporting features.

“Agile in the cloud

Pros

It is intuitive for me to create stories, break them down into tasks, and assign them to the team. The reporting features are useful for executive summaries in my monthly reports. It helps me track progress and truly embodies agile aspects for a software development environment. The customizable dashboard allows me to track multiple projects and display the most important graphics on one screen.

Cons

The QA process is a little difficult to use. Since we are using a separate bug reporting system, it does not really integrate with it. The process of creating test cases and reporting defects is way too complicated for our environment.

“Rally Review

Pros

I find it easy to use for managing the agile development process. I can easily manage user stories and track task progress.

Cons

We manage bugs/issues in a separate software tool. We tried managing bugs through this software but did not like how bugs were converted to a User Story rather than a task under a Story.

“Rally review

Pros

I can show progress charts, define projects and tasks, and track total team progress.

Cons

It is easy to update status, but it does not update automatically to-do time.