We performed a comparison between GitLab and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"The stability is good."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"The most important features of GitLab for us are issue management and all the CI/CD tools. Another aspect that I love about GitLab is the UI."
"If teams are tracking correctly and entering their information correctly, it's really easy to see where you're at, within your release, and whether you're on track or not."
"It scales very well. It improves in technology constantly and gets up to speed with the latest and greatest."
"Having that view into features and roadmap from product to delivery teams, and where they are going, then execute on."
"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."
"With this product, searching for historical information or the evolution of the requirement, detecting conflict between projects has helped a lot."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Kanban board."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"I don't really like the new Kubernetes integration because it is pretty focused on the on-premise environment, but we're in a hybrid environment."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."
"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."
"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."
"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."
"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."
"It's a bit cumbersome to manage the Project Picker. As we sunset teams or projects close out - but we still have test cases tied to those teams or projects that are being used in other spaces - we have this monstrous list in the Project Picker that becomes really difficult to manage and find, and we can't clean that up ourselves. It would be nice if it was easier to do that and not lose your history."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"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)."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"We want Rally to generate OKRs, to allow teams to record the OKRs, and then the OKRs can be mapped to the epics and there is organizational alignment."
"A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 49 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 7th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 7 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and Polarion ALM. See our GitLab vs. Rally Software report.
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