We performed a comparison between AgileCraft and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The linking of PI Objectives with different features was one of the cool things. It had features, epics, and stories out of the box."
"It's designed around Agile, so it has all of the pieces that match up with the process."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"It's very user-friendly."
"It is very stable. It has been on the market a long time."
"With this product, searching for historical information or the evolution of the requirement, detecting conflict between projects has helped a lot."
"Helps me determine how fast I can launch, go to production."
"Ease of use - I don't even know when a new release is coming and I don't need to because it's so easy to use what's new."
"We have teams come and go all the time. We have teams in India, America, Ireland, Poland, Italy, England... we are spread out everywhere! Rally is our key tool for scrum planning and our single source of truth, and it handles it all flawlessly."
"It should just have the integration with Jira. We haven't looked at it since Atlassian bought the product."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"It is hard to track the changes. For example, we're in sprint 25, and then we have 26, 27, 28, and 29. Throughout that whole time, we're developing pipelines in Azure, moving to GitHub, creating pipelines, and working with teams. But sometimes, we need to revisit specific decisions made in previous sprints, like pipeline details. Maybe it's in our Azure Wiki, GitHub, or Teams, but it's not always consistent. I wish I could search for all tasks or stories related to that particular effort without needing to know everyone's individual stories or features."
"I think there is a missing link with the development activity. Some developers are pushing in new versions of the code, but you cannot make the link from the user story to a specific application version."
"What I don't like about it is that it is really hard to find old work to reference information and use the reporting section of the application in terms of trying to analyze trends. If I am trying to find out which interfaces took this long and I want to compare and measure improvement from one quarter to another quarter, the reporting mechanism within Rally is very troublesome. They have an Excel plugin that you're supposed to use, but you literally have to pull the raw data out before you can do the analysis. You can't do it within Rally, and if you can, it is a secret, and I don't know how to do it. It should have better, easier, and user-friendly reporting without having to use the Excel add-in. It is very clunky. There is a lot of data in there, but it is not organized in such a way that makes it intuitive. You really have to kind of look for where do you put your documentation or dates. Some customization is available, but it is not plug-and-play like Jira. When I switched from TFS to Jira, I just went and started using Jira, whereas with Rally, you kind of have to really get in and figure out what you need to do before you set stuff up, or you're going to get yourself stuck. You can just start using Jira and be successful."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"Rally Software is highly complex, and it takes some effort to get everything tied together. But once you do, it's a satisfying experience, and the result looks beautiful. Azure, ServiceNow, and Jira do not have all the features that Rally Software provides in one place, making it an exceptional tool for project management."
"I wish there was a view, like the Kanban view, where you could see the parent, and see all the children visually, so you could drag and drop where you want it to go. Something like that might help."
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AgileCraft is ranked 18th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites while Rally Software is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. AgileCraft is rated 7.0, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AgileCraft writes "Linking of PI Objectives with different features was cool, but it didn't have integration with Jira". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". AgileCraft is most compared with Jira and Jira Align, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and OpenText ALM / Quality Center.
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