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"The solution is customizable."
"You can customize the board according to your needs."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard."
"The integration with Git works well."
"The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"Everyone in a team can work on the same platform and share the same information."
"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"The product has excellent customizable reports."
"The most valuable feature is actually creating a field within there for architectural review. So when teams are struggling or have questions on the architecture or strategy that they take, they can actually flag that particular story, release, or project. Those can then be reviewed by the architecture team and the teams actually get additional information on how to course-correct, build on the architecture that we're trying to build throughout the organization, and get over road blocks much quicker."
"Tech support is very responsive, helpful, and available."
"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."
"My teams uses it for their daily agile management. They describe their user stories and track the progress of their projects."
"It has allowed the quality assurance team to keep all information in sync with the application requirements and user stories for our general development."
"The most valuable features are in-line editing, easy custom view setup, intuitive and helpful visuals (e.g., contextual formatting) and the collaboration features."
"The reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"The most valuable features are related to source code management. Using TFS for source code management and being able to branch and have multiple developers work on the same projects is valuable. We can also branch and merge code back together."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is project management, which includes user stories as well as task management."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"One of the complaints from users is that they have to click buttons too many times for just a simple task. Changing this would lead to a better user experience."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"The solution can improve in the development area and the customized applications."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"Of course it would be related to customer experience. The solution is not user friendly at all. It needs an expert to use it, although the reporting feature was okay."
"I think nowadays people are getting into Jira and other tools. What is happening is, this solution is becoming more traditional, whereas Jira and other tools are more attractive for the new users to learn and start using because of the graphical interfaces."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"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 think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"In terms of improvement, perhaps some more metrics. If they could add some additional, that would be cool."
"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."
"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)."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"The manageability and performance of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."
"Currently, we are looking for a solution with which we can incorporate third-party development sites or third-party project teams into the system. Because it is on-premise, it is a bit problematic because we need to have a VPN or something else in the system. A cloud-based solution would be better for us, and that's what we are looking for. Our biggest problem is the external connection, which, of course, is limited by our own IT. It would be good to have some kind of publishing service for this external connection. It might be there, and it might be that our IT is making it impossible for us. Its template editor could be easier to use. Currently, customizing the project templates according to your needs requires some work."
"The test management interface is not very handy."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"I'd like to see some kind of visualization tool for TFS that would make life much easier."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"I would like to see TFS improve its web interface as there are some limitations with IDs and the integration behind it and with open-source tools like VS Code."
