Rally

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Pros

- 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

Cons

- 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

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to Rally

Pros

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

Cons

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

Pros

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

Cons

Outdated UI, search functionality was slow and unreliable, and controls were not easy to use.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.