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NP Score: 40 Based on 5 reviews
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Rally Software Development | |
| October 24, 2008 | ||
| Commercial | ||
| Hosted/Installable | ||
| Linux, Mac, Other, Windows | ||
| Browser |
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Rally unites Agile project management with requirements management, test management and defect management, so everyone has a real-time picture of your project’s features and quality, priorities, roadblocks and risks. Rally’s deep support for all roles and activities in the software development lifecycle lets you replace expensive and poorly integrated point tools with a highly secure, hosted web service that starts fast and scales easily across platforms and geographies for low-risk, low-cost deployment.
Rally Enterprise Edition starts at $35/user/month subscription
Rally Community Edition is Free up to 10 users
Great application lifecycle management tool that allows Agile organizations to manage the complete process from planning, developing, testing, and deploying. We choose Rally's Enterprise Edition over VersionOne and XP Tracker after a thorough evaluation almost two years ago. While the products were functionally similar, my team found the Rally interface to be more intuitive and responsive. Recently updates (Rally consistently deploys every two months or so) have streamlined the GUI even further, improved overall performance, and greatly expanded test management capabilities. community-contributed plugins help integrate Rally into our development environment (VS 2008) and automated build environment (CruiseControl.Net). Search is an opportunity for improvement -- would be very nice to have additional filtering capabilities as mentioned in an earlier review.
I evaluated many products to support my Scrum focused projects and Rally was far and away the best. It is one of the best examples of the SaaS (Software as a Service) model in action. I don't have to worry about equipment to maintain, I simply log on to my Rally account. Managers are blown away with the insight they get into the health of a project when they see the Rally burn down charts. Developers are empowered when they go in to the system and update tasks they have taken on and see the progress reflected in the burn down chart. Sprint planning and maintenance is a snap through the advanced web 2.0 interface. My clients see the value very quickly in using the enterprise edition. It is well worth the fee.
The UI is clumsy, and the search is by keyword only, which means you can't quickly and easily find all unfinished stories with the string "foo".
Great application, new features delivered every 6-8 weeks. Can integrate with many other applications such as Salesforce.com, JIRA, CruiseControl to name a few. Highly recommend if you have the budget.
We have a small shop (three developers), and this software lets us get 'er done. It doesn't get in our way, and allows us to easily collaborate. We found the startup training to be excellent, particularly so because all of us were brand new to agile development. We're still not experts, but I think we have a good grasp, mostly thanks to the Rally coach who walked us through it. Highly recommend!