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 most valuable features are in-line editing, easy custom view setup, intuitive and helpful visuals (e.g., contextual formatting) and the collaboration features."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"It documents stories in a way where we do not have to be heavy on front-end requirements, front-end documentation, and front-end workflows."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"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."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"We've actually used it for virtual PI planning. We have teams in different locations, and we actually virtually do PI planning, big-room planning, using the tools."
"It drives the conversation behind some of the pain points the teams have, based on the data that we're able to pull out of the system. As a result of that, we're able to make better decisions, to become better as a whole."
"TFS's best features include user-friendly test management, bug reporting, and ID assignment."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"Good branching and labelling features."
"The most valuable features of TFS are bug reporting and its high performance."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"The navigation within the tool sometimes is a little tricky for me. I'm sure with more use, more practice, I'll become accustomed to it, but some of the things just aren't intuitive."
"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."
"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)."
"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."
"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."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"In the next release, I would like them to include integration for various projects, similar to what JIRA has, and they could create this feature on the dashboard."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"The solution's server for deployment needs to be improved."
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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