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."Having that view into features and roadmap from product to delivery teams, and where they are going, then execute on."
"The main ways that I used it when I was in it day to day was keeping up with the burn rate within the teams. Also, to track at the feature level too, as far as how we were doing with actually being able to deliver that feature."
"We use the roadmap features, and we're getting better at using dates to use the roadmap so that we can see if we're on target for work."
"The most valuable features of Rally Software are the executive dashboards, ease of use, and many other features. They have encapsulated everything that a GI can do, such as monitoring, maintaining, and then releasing. It's continuous integration and development."
"It helps me evaluate teams' historical performance using velocity charts."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Kanban board."
"Since it is a robust solution, I face no performance issues. Also, considering how well the implementation process of the solution was carried out, we never faced any issues while using the solution."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"Team Foundation Server (TFS) is easy to use, and we have a complete trail and traceability. We also like the access control part."
"It's user friendly. We haven't had any issues so far. It's flexible. If we need something, we can always contact the owner in our headquarters to make a configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"I like the build management features and the integration with Jenkins and many other tools."
"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."
"There are few customisation options. For instance, the workflow for story cards cannot be changed out of the box from the standard (Defined, In-Progress, Completed and Accepted)."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"In terms of improvement, perhaps some more metrics. If they could add some additional, that would be cool."
"I'd like the ability to customize reports without having to incur Professional Services, or having to write my own code GitHub and then implement that as a custom report. That's untenable. It's not sustainable."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"More importantly, we are seeing internal challenges from Atlassian because of their highly integrated suite that enables further automation and centralization of activities that are also highly necessary – messaging notifications cued off builds, collaboration on Solution Architecture Documentation, etc."
"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."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
Rally Software is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 7 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 27 reviews. Rally Software is rated 8.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". 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 OpenText ALM Octane, 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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