We performed a comparison between Asana and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Microsoft, Asana and others in Project Management Software."Asana has helped me (as an individual contributor) organize my daily work and given me a way to plan for longer term objectives."
"The solution's user interface is very good."
"Asana, despite its compact size, proves to be incredibly valuable. When initiating a project, it offers the ability to generate a personalized form for clients. In this particular context, my clients include the customer success team and solution architects. This feature allows me to provide them with a convenient means to submit their requests, resembling a ticketing system geared towards internal operations. Moreover, it enables efficient allocation within my team. For instance, if a question pertains to customer success, I can assign it to the CSOps manager and the team. Similarly, if it relates to a specific channel, it can be allocated accordingly."
"The ability to build subtasks and break things down off of our major tasks has been very valuable. It is very stable and extremely scalable. The initial setup is very simple."
"It is very good for managing the timeline. I'm a quality manager, and I have different testing projects running with different work breakdown structures. Asana makes it very easy to implement and monitor the plans. It is easy to move the tasks and complete them, break them down, and assign them to people."
"Asana allows you to create your own project with sub sections with subtasks that can be assigned. The feature I really love is that you can tag people to notify them that there has been progress on a project as well as add attachments."
"The tool has a lot of integrations."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its project management tracking systems."
"It scales very well. It improves in technology constantly and gets up to speed with the latest and greatest."
"We can work better and at a higher quality, than we were able to before."
"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."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"Its ability to scale."
"My teams uses it for their daily agile management. They describe their user stories and track the progress of their projects."
"The configurable Portfolio Management and parent-child relationships."
"Agile Central allows us to log one hundred percent of the work we do and it allows for no hidden work, so teams can't go under the radar with what they're working on."
"In some instances, there were subtasks where more than one person needed to review it, but I could only assign it to one person. I would have to create a subtask under a subtask and then assign it to other people. This could be improved."
"We'd like the capability to be able to set up weekly reminders."
"The messaging feature could be better."
"On the development side for technical project management, Asana is missing features. We only use it for discussing tasks and strategies, and we use it for customer to-do lists. It doesn't have the source code integration that Jira and Jira Service Desk both have."
"A user should be able to identify an assignee for specific tasks or task types while applying the template, or at a minimum, allow for a default assignee. As it is, the template gets created with the just task dates driven by the project start and end dates inputted by the user. In my current situation, I'm assigning myself to many tasks, so I have to do that manually every time. Even if I eventually start adding other people to assign tasks, there won't be more than a handful to do. However, those few people will have multiple tasks. It would be nice to be able to select those individuals during the setup rather than having to do so manually once the project has been created."
"It's hard to integrate Asana into other parts of the company workflow, so integration is an area for improvement."
"If you have been using a tool like Jira for many years, it make time some time to get used to the minimalist layout in Asana."
"The calendar view in Asana has shortcomings and can be improved."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"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."
"It requires better scalability for the implementation of the whole suite. We do not use it in that fashion, and visibility is sometimes a problem."
"I would like for workspace admins to be able to hide projects in the Project Picker and not lose any historical data; make them invisible to certain users, visible to certain users, depending on permission sets. That would be lovely."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"It is hard to track the changes. For example, we're in sprint 25, and then we have 26, 27, 28, and 29. Throughout that whole time, we're developing pipelines in Azure, moving to GitHub, creating pipelines, and working with teams. But sometimes, we need to revisit specific decisions made in previous sprints, like pipeline details. Maybe it's in our Azure Wiki, GitHub, or Teams, but it's not always consistent. I wish I could search for all tasks or stories related to that particular effort without needing to know everyone's individual stories or features."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 6th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. Asana is rated 8.4, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Asana writes "Extremely stable, user-friendly, and easy to navigate". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Wrike, monday.com and Jira, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and Atlassian ALM.
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