We performed a comparison between Rally Software and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Atlassian, Microsoft, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."It's very user-friendly."
"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."
"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 helps me evaluate teams' historical performance using velocity charts."
"When it comes to the valuable features of Rally Software, it excels at burn-down charts, burn-up charts, and road mapping once it's set up. I particularly appreciated the new feature for releases and road mapping, which worked exceptionally well."
"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."
"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."
"What I like most about Rally Software, in terms of using it for the agile process, is that it's clear, useful, and user-friendly. I also like that it has every field you can use for the Scrum process."
"Smartsheet is stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Enables coordination and sharing of information that is relatively inexpensive."
"The solution is straightforward. Whenever a requirement arises, we create three things in Smartsheet: a project plan, a dashboard, and internal documents. It is done through the form and Smartsheet's automation services. This process shortens the time to market from seven days to less than 12 hours."
"It's very user friendly."
"The ability to build a quick dashboard and give management insight into the progress of the project itself is probably one of the most beneficial pieces."
"Smartsheet does a really good job of creating Gantt charts. Export to Excel feature was also very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is it can be highly customized."
"In terms of improvement, perhaps some more metrics. If they could add some additional, that would be cool."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's a bit cumbersome to manage the Project Picker. As we sunset teams or projects close out - but we still have test cases tied to those teams or projects that are being used in other spaces - we have this monstrous list in the Project Picker that becomes really difficult to manage and find, and we can't clean that up ourselves. It would be nice if it was easier to do that and not lose your history."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"Smartsheet could be improved to be a ticketing system. It would be nice to have a system to do everything."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"If there was some way to store more complex files in the system, or if there was a back-end structure where you could store files, that would be ideal."
"Lacks the ability to edit attachments within the solution."
"With a large quantity of data, the solution lags a bit."
"The long-term timelines could be improved, especially the visuals on the projection Gantt chart."
"I'd like to see them add more features to their automation."
"An area for improvement in Smartsheet is that if you're in the government or you're a regulated customer, you're not allowed to use APIs due to internal restrictions, so there are specific things that you cannot connect to it. Another area for improvement in the solution is that because there's a capacity of how many records you can have, and there's a capacity of how many functions you can apply, Smartsheet has set up their system where they can force people into purchasing a $20,000 additional module that is called Control Center, that will create documents for them on the fly, so they don't use so many functions and automation. Smartsheet also needs to improve on training, because the training that is out there is very little. The solution requires a steeper learning curve. You have to do your own training and you have to work on your own solution."
Rally Software is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 33 reviews. Rally Software is rated 8.2, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. 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 Smartsheet writes "Has customization, data pulling, and cross-functional global communication features; it's a secure solution". Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and Planisware.
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