We performed a comparison between Jira and Rally Software 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."We integrate Jira with QRadar which is helpful."
"All of the tracking features are the most valuable because it allows me to see where we stand today and every day."
"The burndown chart is also helpful when it comes to reporting and allows us to know where we are going, especially during development."
"The adaptability of the Scrum and Kanban boards for other uses, with careful use of the customization features."
"One of the most valuable features is querying because the jQuery function is very good. Additionally, we can create good designs very easily."
"The most valuable feature is that it is somewhat flexible."
"The dashboards are useful."
"Issue linking has enabled teams to trace issues."
"My teams uses it for their daily agile management. They describe their user stories and track the progress of their projects."
"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."
"Helps me determine how fast I can launch, go to production."
"Tech support is very responsive, helpful, and available."
"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 Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Kanban board."
"The GUI should have much better features like more graphical illustrations. There are some cases or benchmarks that we are trying to capture into a dashboard GUI's graphical summary, but unfortunately JIRA is not able to do that."
"The challenge which I frequently see from Jira is the label. When you search for a label sometimes, it suddenly disappears. If there's a mismatch due to all-caps or lower case, you won't be able to find it. It won't even come up as a recommendation or suggestion. That's something that can be really frustrating, as people create labels in their own specific ways and then no one else can find anything."
"I'd like the solution to be more secure."
"The support could be improved."
"When we use the plugin in Jira so, there are two different systems which we are working on, Jira and the X-ray plugin. The X-ray plugin should be incorporated into Jira because we have to fetch two reports. One report is faxed through Jira, and one can be faxed through X-ray. So there needs to be clarity about which the Jira team should reflect."
"The pricing is quite high."
"It would be ideal if Jira had future functionalities to integrate more easily with various aspects of code reviews."
"The user interface and views on different devices should be improved."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"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 wish there was a view, like the Kanban view, where you could see the parent, and see all the children visually, so you could drag and drop where you want it to go. Something like that might help."
"More customization capabilities would be helpful. Providing a little bit more structure around how the system should be set up in terms of the hierarchy structure might be helpful as well."
"I think the interface could be a little bit more visual and less wordy. Right now, it seems like it's just a lot of text on the page. In other ticketing systems where it's more visual, you can see more of a flow. But in this one it's more just a list of tasks. I would like to see that a little bit better, especially considering it has so many great organizational features, like child tasks, different artifacts. It would be great to see it presented more appropriately."
"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)."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
Jira is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 243 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. Jira is rated 8.0, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". 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". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Polarion ALM and TFS, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, TFS, Jira Align, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Digital.ai Agility. See our Jira vs. Rally Software report.
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