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."I really enjoy the portfolios in Asana. One of the ways Asana stands out to me is with portfolios. You can have all your different projects, and you can have those assigned to different teams. If you want to customize a grouping of projects, you can use portfolios. For instance, one of the things that we do is we can assign a portfolio to a specific strategic objective we have, and we can put all those projects that are related to that strategic objective in that portfolio. We then know exactly what people are working on to help us achieve our goals. So, I really like portfolios."
"The ability to share projects and tasks among team members appears to be the most valuable feature."
"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 stable and easy to set up."
"The solution scales well."
"The general UI shows progress and data analytics for all projects in progress."
"The solution appears to be quite stable."
"Asana provides a lot of options and a lot of customization to give the best efficient way for your business to operate. For example, I can customize my tasks, tables, and pipelines the way I want them to fit my business model. It's easy and highly customizable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Kanban board."
"It allows us to work in a more dynamic fashion and track more of the development lifecycle."
"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."
"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."
"It's a good platform to keep track of all the user stories across all projects. So rather than having one off Excel spreadsheets with all of the requirements, it is a good place to have all of that."
"It's very user-friendly."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"The transparency it allows us to provide, both from the team level all the way through the executive level within the company and the work that we are doing."
"Currently, there are only a few available options, but it would be helpful to have more control over the notifications received."
"I rate the support from Asana a four out of five."
"It's difficult to have short-term collaborations with external users because the operations team owns the final licenses, and I work for marketing."
"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."
"We tried, but we haven't been successful with it. If people don't have the training, it is not easy to use. You need to make sure that the people are trained to use the system. They can provide more resources in the form of webcasts and videos that people can use to train themselves and understand how to use it."
"In Asana, there's no way to add a custom date field."
"Some customizations and functions are still not available, however, so far, they haven't been a deal killer."
"The product's page is not user-friendly."
"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."
"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."
"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)."
"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."
"It could improve by being self-organizing: user stories, different hierarchies, and different perspectives. Not just as a single hierarchical structure, but something that can be multidimensional."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"In terms of improvement, perhaps some more metrics. If they could add some additional, that would be cool."
Asana is ranked 3rd in Project Management Software with 43 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 8th 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 "Stands out with portfolios, easy setup, and real-time information, but needs big improvement when it comes to workflows, automation, and dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "A solution that enables users to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects". Asana is most compared with Microsoft Project, Wrike, Microsoft Azure DevOps, 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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