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."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."
"It scales very well. It improves in technology constantly and gets up to speed with the latest and greatest."
"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."
"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."
"It has allowed the quality assurance team to keep all information in sync with the application requirements and user stories for our general development."
"It allows us to work in a more dynamic fashion and track more of the development lifecycle."
"If teams are tracking correctly and entering their information correctly, it's really easy to see where you're at, within your release, and whether you're on track or not."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"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."
"It's an integrated system that includes all the information that we need to deliver our products smoothly and to track the progress of each piece of code."
"It is easy to push our changes from quality to pre-prod and prod."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"The most valuable features are test case writing and bug tracking."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"The biggest value-add is the solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"We'd like better dashboards to make visibility better."
"We want Rally to generate OKRs, to allow teams to record the OKRs, and then the OKRs can be mapped to the epics and there is organizational alignment."
"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."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"Customization features may not be exposed or unavailable, so people may be looking for them. So, customization is an area people have told me is more desirable."
"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."
"I think the interface could be a little bit more visual and less wordy. Right now, it seems like it's just a lot of text on the page. In other ticketing systems where it's more visual, you can see more of a flow. But in this one it's more just a list of tasks. I would like to see that a little bit better, especially considering it has so many great organizational features, like child tasks, different artifacts. It would be great to see it presented more appropriately."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"The price could be cheaper."
"TFS needs to be stable."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
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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