Rally

Avantages

Rally is the best tool I've used for agile development tracking. The UI is the clearest and the layout is the most intuitive I've seen on the market. It's so easy to display all defects or all stories, tasks, etc. I love the export functions and how simply one can customize own reports.

Inconvénients

It is really expensive and hard to customize fields for sub-projects that are different than the parent projects.

Avantages

- The most important feature that we use the on daily cadence is, managing projects, creating features, splitting up user stories for better management, time tracking, task managements for user stories to track the completion of the feature. We also create Dashboards for tracking and managing resources efficiently

Inconvénients

- The support can be more effective for any queries or cases we create.
- There could be more UI features that the Rally product team can bring up for better user experience
- The pricing can be better when purchasing with bundles and packages with heavy user license

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Pourquoi passer à Rally

Avantages

Theme, feature, and other deliverable linking is easy. Categories could be customized easily, with some good security controls.

Inconvénients

Outdated UI, search functionality was slow and unreliable, and controls were not easy to use.

Avantages

Easy to navigate. Can move throughout screens and is intuitive for user.

Inconvénients

A little busy. There is a lot on the screens.

Avantages

1. Software is build around agile methodologies , best suited for projects using agile.
2. Easy to use, assign the unit of work to a respective team and resource
3. Tailor made for projects which involves a lot of teams within it.
4. Monitoring,Status of work can be easily determined.
5. Dashboards and reports are inbuilt and can be customized.
6. Separate process for sprint planning tabs are available.
7. Different stages of work flow like Backlog, analysis,development, test readiness and test execution and their count along with customization are really helpful.
8. Integrates well with CICD pipeline tools like Jenkins and Sonar Qube etc.

Inconvénients

1. Very few fields options are available. We were using ALM before moving on Agile central, all the fields in ALM was not mapped to CA agile. It was difficult to map the fields since it has very less field options.
2. Customization and Report creation during the initial phase was very difficult.
3. Need to depend on the Scrum master to make process changes.
4. Iniital setup of the process was difficult and transition of people from water fall to Agile using CA Agile was challenging.

Avantages

* Web based an intuitive
* Supports Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and other agile frameworks
* Scalable enough to support multiple teams and portfolios
* Backlog creation, Iteration planning, Release Planning, Story creation, Milestone definition, Feature and Initiative (epic) creation, and captures many useful fields that help reduce the elaborate documentation requirements.
* Story dependencies can be tracked easily.
* Discussion tab allows capture useful discussions/ data and helps collaboration on story, feature or initiative.
* Parent - Child relationship can be established between stories
* Multiple reports can be generated that helps team measure performance and productivity.
* Iteration board, Kanban board provide realtime view of team progress.

Inconvénients

* It does not work well with Internet Explorer browser.
* License cost is high as compared to other tools like JIRA

Avantages

It enables you to execute distributed agile and scaled agile frameworks. Removes all the clutter and makes the whole process very streamlined. Data and Dashboards are available very quickly

Inconvénients

Training and online documentation can have some improvements

Avantages

- good tool to track day to day work and team's workload.

Inconvénients

- Tasks doesn't reflects under individuals workflow if the main user story is assigned on different user's name
- Teamboard is one of the example for the above.

Avantages

Its helping breaking all the User stories into many items and assigned it to the relevant team and putting also the effort , then easily you can extract report

Inconvénients

main item that it doesn't show plan vs actual so it doesnt say anything if you are at 70% than compare to what? reports should be easily change from private to public

Avantages

Following are best features :
User story management
Burn down/burn up chart
Velocity calculation
Easy Reporting
Agile life cycle management
Distributed team management using KANBAN methodology

Inconvénients

I feel this is a best tool which really can’t be debated

Avantages

great task management and sprint tasks management tool

Inconvénients

the configration setup and moving stories from one sprint to another needs lot of work

Avantages

Project management is the best part of this software. It helps organization to track the project. It gives us feature to divide the project into multiple sub-project in EPICs an L2s. So, team can easily achieve the project delivers by completing the multiple EPIC. It helps team to work in agile methodology and gives exposure to do the continuous deliveries.

Inconvénients

As of now, i don't have anything which i don't like about this software.

Avantages

Rally GUI is so easy to use and seamless. It is the best software to track the user stories and update comments on it.

Inconvénients

There is nothing to not like about this software. Everything about it is good.

Avantages

I like the dragging option, the fact that it's not 100% customizable which makes it easy, one you learn it, to work with it. It makes tracking tasks and bugs quite easy and clear.

Inconvénients

I'm missing better integration with other services, like GitHub. Also, I wish the UI would get a facelift so it would look better, cleaner and modern. Also, the way of adding user stories and defects takes a learning curve.

Avantages

The project tracking with features, user stories and tasks are great.

Inconvénients

You can get lost sometimes when you are navigating through things.

Avantages

1. Easy to learn
2. Allows to keep track from Epic to task level efficiently
3. Helps in quick standup meeting updates
4. Good reports on project / sprint progress

Inconvénients

There are too many options to achieve same result that often leads to confusion for new users

Avantages

Tasks link to stories, stories link to features, ways to track everything. Allows you to provide a good amount of detail within the stories and acceptance criteria

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

Really helps to manage user stories and planning for iterations. Managing back logs is this tool is helpful, so items are not missed or ignored.

Inconvénients

Learning the tool took a while, training could be better.

Avantages

Integration and customization support allow us to interface with our internal applications

Inconvénients

Continue to expand the portfolio and program management roll up and reporting features

Avantages

It's a great way to communicate company wide, easy to create user stories and breaking them down into tasks, the latest UI upgrade was a big improvment.

Inconvénients

Gets laggy sometimes, can't see attached images properly once there is more than one image,
mostly small quirks, all in all it's a good product.

Avantages

Allows customizable views, as in Kanban, for any needed software development methodology.

Inconvénients

Very expensive software in which utilizing all of the features is definitely a challenge for management.

Avantages

This tool is easy to access and faster in response. GUI is very simple and anyone can understand the functionalities easily

Inconvénients

The application is often down and needs lot of maintenance window as it is down at least two weeks once

Avantages

It is intuitive to create stories, break down to tasks and assign them to the team. The reporting features are very useful for executive summary in my monthly report. Easy to track the progress. It truly has the agile aspects build in for software development environment. The customizable dashboard allows you to track multiple projects and display the most important graphics on one screen.

Inconvénients

The QA process is a little bit difficult to use. Since we are using a separate bug reporting system, it doesn't really integrate with it. The process of creating test cases and report defects are way too complicated for our environment. Overall, I don't have too much complaints against Rally.

Avantages

IT is a ticket management software it does that well but thats about all it gets done well. It has many issuse.

Inconvénients

My biggest complaint is that is is overly complicated and buggy. It constantly times you out and returns you to the home page rather than were you left off.

Avantages

It is easy to use, easy to set up. Efficient to track user stories, defects. Easy to move items from one state to another.

Inconvénients

Not so customizable as Jira. 1 defect can not be linked to 2 or more user stories.