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's designed around Agile, so it has all of the pieces that match up with the process."
"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."
"The most valuable features are in-line editing, easy custom view setup, intuitive and helpful visuals (e.g., contextual formatting) and the collaboration features."
"Its ability to scale."
"It helps with getting the alignment between strategy and execution for the product teams, all the way down to the delivery teams."
"It is very stable. It has been on the market a long time."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"We use the roadmap features, and we're getting better at using dates to use the roadmap so that we can see if we're on target for work."
"The interface is easy to navigate."
"It is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."
"As it is right now, it does not support automation of the quality assurance process. It just supports manual testing."
"One problem I see is that if there is a dependent user story - for example, if my team is working on one thing and there is a dependent user story from another team - we can have a dependency created but we don't know if there is a change of status from the other team. That is something which is very important for Agile Central to look into so that if the other team makes any changes we will be notified as well."
"In terms of improvement, perhaps some more metrics. If they could add some additional, that would be cool."
"I would like to see more Kanban support. As it stands, it doesn't seem to have the features or the layouts that the teams really need to be able to execute their tasks. It almost tries to force you into more of a Scrum style."
"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 options could be provided from the perspective of requirements management, which would help product owners to use the tool effectively."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"Its pricing could be improved."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
Rally Software is ranked 6th 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 "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". 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 GitLab, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Visual Studio Test Professional. See our Rally Software vs. TFS report.
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