We performed a comparison between Jira and Rally Software 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 handles all of the issues that we need it to do."
"We integrate Jira with QRadar which is helpful."
"This solution focuses on lean methodology which we have found useful and it can also be used on any device."
"Kanban boards are most valuable"
"The features on offer are great. It has everything we need."
"Integrates with other components."
"Some of the features that are most important to me of JIRA Agile are the sprint planning, being able to write user stories and being able to use task management."
"Integration is good."
"It scales very well. It improves in technology constantly and gets up to speed with the latest and greatest."
"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 reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"The product has excellent customizable reports."
"We have teams come and go all the time. We have teams in India, America, Ireland, Poland, Italy, England... we are spread out everywhere! Rally is our key tool for scrum planning and our single source of truth, and it handles it all flawlessly."
"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."
"Having that view into features and roadmap from product to delivery teams, and where they are going, then execute on."
"There are no fields to search or to filter by, mainly the ones which use a data around a date and time when something changes."
"I'd like to see better notetaking capabilities so every user can get notes when someone provides comments on a Jira ticket. So if they don't want to provide the comments on the Jira ticket, they can get the personal notes in a Jira tool for every profile."
"Jira lacks easy capacity calculation compared to TFS, making it harder to know how much work to allocate to each specialist."
"Workflows can be improved. We don't use workflows because we can't handle that much complexity. Its interface could be more intuitive for workflows."
"I would like to have a future-proof idea of the cost and the roadmap for my class."
"It can have a more high-level view of portfolios. It has quite detailed views, but I would like a high-level view of portfolios. We want to integrate Jira with Microsoft Active Directory, and I don't know how easy or hard it is going to be. I don't know if Jira supports this. We are starting that integration in the last quarter of this year. I hope to find all the required tools for this integration."
"Whenever you edit a story, whatever you have changed takes a bit of time to save."
"Jira's collaboration and integration with other apps and tools could be improved."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"The stronger CA can get on dependency mapping the better. That's the biggest hiccup. As you're setting up your features, they should make it easier to flag the dependencies, either across features or across projects. Then you're more set up for success."
"More customization capabilities would be helpful. Providing a little bit more structure around how the system should be set up in terms of the hierarchy structure might be helpful as well."
"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."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"We'd like better dashboards to make visibility better."
"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."
"A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Polarion ALM and TFS, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, TFS, Jira Align, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and GitLab. See our Jira vs. Rally Software report.
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