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Dev Ops Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

My team and I did an evaluation comparing Azure DevOps and Rally back in the day. Anyway, we had Northwest come down from Seattle to chat with us, and we spent a week with them. 

We were a team of folks from operations, development, and developer support. Initially, we thought since our code is in Git, we should go with Azure DevOps. 

However, another group internally overruled us because of some missing interfaces in Azure DevOps. Now, we're facing a disconnect between Rally and Azure, and we're having to manually work on traceability and observability between them. It's not seamless like an out-of-the-box integration.

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it_user631632 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Digital Engagement Delivery at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

CA Agile Central/Rally was already embedded at my company when I came on board. However, while I have been here, there was a move from some factions of IT leadership to make us move to the IBM Rational Suite. We were able to push back on that edict by demonstrating the clear superiority of the CA Agile Central solution over IBM’s. However, there are still pushes happening from that team, focused on the higher cost of CA over IBM.

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it_user778977 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We explored a lot of tools when were trying to promote SAFe or Agile across the entire organization, so we moved through the Scaled Agile Framework. And then there were only three or four tools that we explored, and Rally, or CA Agile Central, was one of those that we thought would really work.

We looked at VersionOne, the Atlassian tool, I can't remember the name of it, I think it's just JIRA, and Rally.

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it_user628020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dealing Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

In my current role, the firm evaluated JIRA, Agile Central, VersionOne and IBM Rational (I think).

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it_user663606 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

At my old company we had a demo for VersionOne, then Rally (now Agile Central), and one other tool. One of the reasons we went with Rally is it was easier to use than VersionOne. The reporting was great, it was what we were looking for. And at that time it had another feature called Timesheet, that became the Timesheet in Agile Central.

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it_user637815 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I wasn't involved in any such evaluation.

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it_user636102 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Tech Ops Support System Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I was not part of the decision process.

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it_user647424 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Business Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

At my level, I didn't do the evaluating. One of our staff within the organization did. I had no idea if they looked at other options or not but I think they chose CA Agile Central because of the versatility and the ability to handle multiple teams in multiple locations. It seemed to work out to help all of us transform to the agile methodology.

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it_user627030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Pipeline Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated JIRA and others.

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it_user597612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile (Jira/Confluence) Tools Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Atlassian JIRA and HPE Quality Center: They are market-leading tools and still quite competitive with more features to support both waterfall and agile models.

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Director Of Enterprise Architecture at Best Western

We were looking at two different products, CA Agile and JIRA, and it seemed like there was less customizability for CA Agile, and that was important because we didn't want to have all the teams doing different things. So the lack of customization was a selling point for us.

Also, the reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us.

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it_user635460 - PeerSpot reviewer
Process Transformation Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in any evaluation process because we are an organization level division. We have nearly 20,000 developers in the IT support team and most of them use this tool. This tool's implementation in the enterprise was from the senior management level.

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it_user778653 - PeerSpot reviewer
PMO Manager at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.

The vendors on the shortlist would be TFS's Project Management through Microsoft, ServiceNow's Project Management, and JIRA.

Earlier on, we went a little faster and we did not do a full software evaluation. We actually are doing a tools assessment now. We are going to be looking at replacing CA, possibly, because we want to make sure we have the right tools. We want to make sure that they flow between all the different tool sets that we have. 

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it_user627045 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It was a company decision. I just adopted the company decision.

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it_user635421 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst, Business Process Design at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I evaluated about half a dozen of the other vendors out there and one of them was JIRA, for portfolio management. JIRA was the other top competitor, although we did evaluate other small vendors as well. CA Agile Central was much better. We actually had a relationship on JIRA's side, but I was the first one to venture into the CA side, as we didn't have the relationship in my team. However, CA Agile was just a far more superior product, as compared to what JIRA was able to offer then.

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it_user558174 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I know of some people that were trying to use JIRA, but I don't believe that had near the capabilities that this does.

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it_user558279 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Program Management at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We didn't evaluate anything other than JIRA and Agile Central.

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it_user558066 - PeerSpot reviewer
Safe Agilist Scrum Master at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I wasn’t there when they selected it. However, I will say that having had the scaled agile framework, I'm a little disappointed at what it looks like in comparison to something like AgileCraft.

I think that they have some work to do on the scaled agile framework side. I don't know if they're doing it because I'm not in those discussions. 

I haven't really looked at any other vendors. Someone just sent me a link to AgileCraft. That's the only reason I mentioned them, and I don't know if it works. I just saw the “marchitecture” stuff.

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it_user558372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Curriculum Development at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The decision to use it came from our development team. The whole development team is using it. Our Services team has been using it for years.

If you're focusing on agile, this is the right product to use. It's built around it. I've tried to do things with MS Project and that sort of thing, and you just can't manage it the same way. It's just not built for the same kind of cycle.

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it_user638703 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I did not evaluate other options because my company is providing the tool. I believe that before choosing it, my company may have done some kind of comparison with other tools, and then selected this one.

More than a team or a manager decision, this was a company-wide decision.

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it_user345534 - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile Coach at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We also looked at products that have good scalability because of the size of our enterprise.

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it_user631638 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical System Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I wasn’t the one to decide which solution to adopt. However, I like CA Agile Central as the choice of our management.

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it_user558177 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not choose this tool personally, it was an enterprise decision.

I believe they looked at JIRA as well and they picked CA Agile Central.

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it_user629046 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Portfolio Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

We evaluated:

  • VersionOne
  • JIRA
  • Trello
  • Smartsheet
  • Taiga.io
  • Tuleap
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it_user558054 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Agilest at SolutionsATI Consulting

Vendors who were on our shortlist were JIRA (Atlassian) and AgileCraft. At the end of the day, we chose Agile Central, mainly for its robust capabilities and the ability to talk to other database systems. For example, I can bring in all those JIRA defects or issues, into the CA central product, because of the open API architecture. Using the SOAP API codebase, I can then have one of their consultants write me a custom hook that allows me to bring in all the data from those other databases. The other two solutions didn't have that open-ended modular framework that allowed me to pull in information from older systems, whether it's coming out of Excel spreadsheets, or older systems, like JIRA. That's one of the big things that we look at.

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it_user627060 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We did not evaluate any alternatives as our management introduced this tool to us.

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it_user558417 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Program Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initially, we looked at a couple of vendors, namely Pivotal Tracker.

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it_user629055 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Analyst, Business Unit at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Only afterwards did I evaluate other options, since I was not a decision-maker; they already owned HPE ALM and CA Agile. SmartBear QAComplete is a great tool and probably my number 1 choice, i.e., if I had the choice. It also works with SoapUI, XML, Selenium and manual scripts.

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it_user558495 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Applications and Development at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're a long-time CA customer. We actually bought Rally before CA purchased them, so we were already a Rally customer when CA bought them. We were also already a CA customer for other products, so it really worked out well for us. We weren't upset at all over that acquisition.

We compared Rally vs JIRA, but we felt that Rally was the better tool.

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it_user558585 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Syntel

JIRA was one of the options, but scalability had been a big challenge. They also had limited support. There were open source projects available, but they require a lot of investment to build from scratch and make use of the basic features that are available. In the long run it would take too much effort for us to take it forward. Whereas with an existing product like Agile Central, it’s easy to just start using it.

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it_user778893 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

We were. We were looking at a few. Not sure if I can say which.

They were not providing a solution that was mature and developed. They were providing solutions that they wanted us to be like a test customer on.

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it_user603810 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Engineer / Qc Analyst Ssr Advanced at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Choosing the tool was not my responsibility. However, I was using another tool and the rampup with this one was very straightforward.

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Associate Project Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did a side-by-side demo and evaluation with two vendors. At that time, it was CA Agile Central and Version One. We chose CA Agile Central over VersionOne because of the reporting features and ease of use.

The only solutions I've experienced are CA Agile Central and VersionOne, and obviously, we chose CA Agile Central. There was also Serena Agile Planner, which was not ideal. Of those three options, I would way that CA Agile Central is excellent. Among those three, we were very happy with it. We are able to incorporate it into our environment. That is the most important thing for us. We're pretty rigid in the way we do things.

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it_user558090 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architecture Managment at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We considered IBM Rational.

We have a lot of requirements. We have lot of business areas that continuously places demands on the IT group. We need strong tools that help us keep correctly the requirements in the lifecycle. It's important. It's not enough to do things better. You need to have a better tools. We have a lot of delays that we want to mitigate. We don't have a good time to market. Agile management helps us.

Technical support, knowledge, and productivity are the most important factors when we chose CA as a vendor.

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it_user639675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Lead at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated JIRA and also looked at the TFS roadmap for future improvements and upcoming features.

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it_user558609 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Release Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I've been at other companies where they're using different tools, like JIRA and stuff like that; but CA Agile Central is fine. At one of those companies, we weren’t using JIRA all the time. It was really too convoluted for what we needed.; so we didn’t use them. Sometimes you needed to dig for certain things that were not necessarily laid out flat like CA Agile Central is. Even though, in JIRA, you can kind of organize them in different ways; but only if you use them. Like I said, CA Agile Central fits our needs pretty well.

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it_user558555 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Program Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Agile Center was already used in my company by other business units, so it was supported internally. Also, we heard that technical support was good. Since are heavily invested in Bugzilla for bug tracking, integration with Bugzilla was a plus.

We are not expert at Agile. We use a different tool for each development model; Eternity WaterFall and Agile. I think that that's one of the advantages.

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it_user558642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I wasn't involved with choosing which tool to use, but I know other platforms were evaluated, including some open source tools like Trello. In the end they went with Agile Central.

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it_user603816 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Agile Coach at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

We looked at VersionOne, Pivotal Tracker, and Trello.

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it_user592353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated five other options. They have changed so much since we evaluated them in 2012, so it wouldn’t be fair to name them.

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it_user631641 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Project Management at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I am not aware of any other evaluated solutions.

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it_user779133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Application Developer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

No, Agile Central, had been on our radar for quite a while.

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it_user635475 - PeerSpot reviewer
DCDP in Indian dept at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

We have compared it with JIRA, the other agile-friendly tool. However, we find this solution better.

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it_user636111 - PeerSpot reviewer
Validation Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in choosing this specific product. It was provided by our company’s IT department.

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it_user627027 - PeerSpot reviewer
Scrum Master at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I was not in charge of making the decision to purchase the product.

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it_user779079 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No, I am not thinking about changing. I need to have a lot of pain to start making changes.

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it_user628026 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I evaluated JIRA.

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it_user635472 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Scrum Master, Coach at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We evaluated JIRA and VersionOne.

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it_user597591 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager And Disaster Recovery Coordinator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We did evaluate alternative solutions.

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it_user558303 - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile Coach at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were looking at JIRA and other options that I cannot remember right now. It was six or seven years ago.

The most important criteria when we selected the vendor was the functionality of the cross-transparency between backlogs. That was the main reason we chose this solution.

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it_user607434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst-Property & Casualty Insurance at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We didn't evaluate other options.

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Buyer's Guide
Rally Software
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Rally Software. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.