We performed a comparison between Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I was able to create epics for our budgeting concerns and it helped me link everything together."
"It helps me evaluate teams' historical performance using velocity charts."
"It is very stable. It has been on the market a long time."
"The product has excellent customizable reports."
"When we went into Scaled Agile Framework, we could not have done it without the use of Agile Central. It allows us to scale our Scrum teams, and it also enables us when we do our remote big room plannings."
"It has allowed the quality assurance team to keep all information in sync with the application requirements and user stories for our general development."
"CA Agile Central provides visibility into how teams are meeting business objectives."
"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."
"The demand management tool is very strategic because it helps assess risk, gives you a visual of different demands, and rates those values."
"The solution offers a lot of opportunities for integrations. We can integrate with Slack, Azure, all the API alternatives, etc. There's a lot of integration modules provided."
"The product is quite convenient and user-friendly."
"ServiceNow brings to the market different layers with different pricing, so you can customize. And all the layers are really enterprise-ready."
"Stable and scalable solution."
"As a product, the primary reason we like it is it gets integrated with our ITSM solution so that we don't have to go for an external product for project management like Jira."
"The solution was quite easy to use. The interface was quite user-friendly, and I've become quite familiar with it."
"The technical support is pretty good. ServiceNow has consistently provided excellent assistance."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."
"The solution needs a few things in terms of resource management."
"The portfolio managed is good for IT, but it's not good for non it's not necessarily great for construction projects, such as the building of physical infrastructure."
"When we originally set it up, we had some kind of success manager free of charge, and now it's an additional charge over and above what we're paying."
"The cost could be improved. The solution is quite pricey."
"ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management could improve by having more Agile features. Other solutions, such as Rally have more."
"The only issue for us is the pricing. It’s quite high in comparison with the competition."
"A major improvement we would like to see is definitely around agile management."
"It could be more user-friendly."
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Rally Software is ranked 6th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 116 reviews while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is ranked 5th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 27 reviews. Rally Software is rated 8.2, while ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management 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 ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management writes "A very strategic demand management tool that visualizes risks and ratings in a bubble chart". Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and Polarion ALM, whereas ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, Microsoft Project Server and Smartsheet. See our Rally Software vs. ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management report.
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