We performed a comparison between Rally Software and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The transparency it allows us to provide, both from the team level all the way through the executive level within the company and the work that we are doing."
"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"It scales very well. It improves in technology constantly and gets up to speed with the latest and greatest."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"The reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us."
"Having that view into features and roadmap from product to delivery teams, and where they are going, then execute on."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"It is a stable solution."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"TFS’s test management capability without the expensive licensing has large gaps. Users will be unable to access performance testing and coded UI testing capabilities."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"It is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are related to source code management. Using TFS for source code management and being able to branch and have multiple developers work on the same projects is valuable. We can also branch and merge code back together."
"It is a stable solution."
"It could improve by being self-organizing: user stories, different hierarchies, and different perspectives. Not just as a single hierarchical structure, but something that can be multidimensional."
"I would like for workspace admins to be able to hide projects in the Project Picker and not lose any historical data; make them invisible to certain users, visible to certain users, depending on permission sets. That would be lovely."
"As it is right now, it does not support automation of the quality assurance process. It just supports manual testing."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"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."
"It requires better scalability for the implementation of the whole suite. We do not use it in that fashion, and visibility is sometimes a problem."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"Access and permissions are confusing when attempting to include basic manual testing functionalities."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
Rally Software is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Rally Software is rated 8.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rally Software writes "A solution that enables users to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Digital.ai Agility, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Visual Studio Test Professional, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail. See our Rally Software vs. TFS report.
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