We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio 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."I think the solution's most important and valuable feature is its ability to track the issues."
"Portfolio's best feature is integration with other JIRA products."
"The most valuable feature is that it fits very well into an agile framework, and it is especially helpful with the planning aspects."
"The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards where we see all the features lined up with the release dates in the portfolio view, it is very good."
"The integration is very good. We've more or less integrated with everything including reporting and registering."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Portfolio helps us increase the visibility of projects' status and management with remote workers who make up most of the company."
"Managing product development and managing inter-team communications are also valuable features."
"It's designed around Agile, so it has all of the pieces that match up with the process."
"We've actually used it for virtual PI planning. We have teams in different locations, and we actually virtually do PI planning, big-room planning, using the tools."
"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."
"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."
"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 allows us to work in a more dynamic fashion and track more of the development lifecycle."
"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."
"Currently lacks AWS integration."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"The workflow needs improvement."
"JIRA and Confluence must be linked automatically."
"We would love to be able to have direct contact with Atlassian. Currently, they are not working directly with West African countries. We are considering using JIRA Align, but when we contact them, they say that as we are in West Africa, they don't directly work with West Africa."
"JIRA Portfolio's configuration management could be improved."
"The automation in JIRA Portfolio could improve, it takes some time. We have to do some other tactics to have the same integration. Manually integrating something will take more work than if it was automated, but the automation scripting in the solution is not simple."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"I'd like the ability to customize reports without having to incur Professional Services, or having to write my own code GitHub and then implement that as a custom report. That's untenable. It's not sustainable."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"What I don't like about it is that it is really hard to find old work to reference information and use the reporting section of the application in terms of trying to analyze trends. If I am trying to find out which interfaces took this long and I want to compare and measure improvement from one quarter to another quarter, the reporting mechanism within Rally is very troublesome. They have an Excel plugin that you're supposed to use, but you literally have to pull the raw data out before you can do the analysis. You can't do it within Rally, and if you can, it is a secret, and I don't know how to do it. It should have better, easier, and user-friendly reporting without having to use the Excel add-in. It is very clunky. There is a lot of data in there, but it is not organized in such a way that makes it intuitive. You really have to kind of look for where do you put your documentation or dates. Some customization is available, but it is not plug-and-play like Jira. When I switched from TFS to Jira, I just went and started using Jira, whereas with Rally, you kind of have to really get in and figure out what you need to do before you set stuff up, or you're going to get yourself stuck. You can just start using Jira and be successful."
"As it is right now, it does not support automation of the quality assurance process. It just supports manual testing."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"The navigation within the tool sometimes is a little tricky for me. I'm sure with more use, more practice, I'll become accustomed to it, but some of the things just aren't intuitive."
"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."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 46 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 6th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 116 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.0, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". 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 Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Microsoft Azure DevOps, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Jira Align and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Rally Software report.
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