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Agile Manager [EOL] vs Rally Software comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Agile Manager [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Rally Software
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
121
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (5th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user739560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior manager IT at a transportation company
Handles user stories well but the lack of a testing module is a problem
Right now I can't say because other stuff is being migrated to Octane. But basically, the testing module that we are used to, that wasn't there at all. If they would have added that into it then they wouldn't even need to build Octane. We did have a list of items we wanted to see added but now they are moving all those things to Octane, and we are also interested in Octane now, so we are not looking to request any more changes to AGM, understanding that this is the go-to tool.
Amit Anand - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Technical Architect at HCLSoftware
Drilling into change lifecycles has given me clear end to end traceability for every item
Reporting is my main area of concern. Additionally, the migration activity and portability are important areas for improvement. If I needed to move from Jira to Rally Software, having built-in portability or migration utilities would be beneficial. At the time of my use, there was not an inbuilt capability to migrate applications from other third-party solutions to Rally Software. Currently, I am not using Rally Software.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product is really easy to use and manage single discrete projects with dedicated teams."
"How you write your user stories, and the requirements gathering, in Agile Manager is pretty good."
"It helps our project team to implement the Agile WoW which was quite new for all of us when we initially started with Agile Manager two years ago."
"Burn-up charts for visibility on progress and workload."
"To me, the difference between what they're using now, the Atlassian product, and Agile Manager is that Agile Manager is much more scalable."
"We use the hierarchy Theme/Feature/Stories for a top-down approach, and the widgets/dashboards are essential to easily setup the reporting and by putting an image on the data, it helps people to understand the issues or to see the potential impacts of their actions."
"This solution gives us flexibility in product testing and allows us to get our products with very quick time-to-market."
"Dashboard with release level graphs; it is so easy to gather the progress made at the release with these graphs rather going through each team’s backlogs."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Of those three options, I would say that CA Agile Central is excellent."
"We have all the features we need; it's a good product in that sense."
"The best feature for our company is that it's easy to use, and it integrates with our other solutions, such as the code warehouse, the test solution, and the deploy solution."
"Defect tracking is the one feature that behaves most like I would expect and I have found a good way get it to work for me."
"Parts of our business use Agile Central to deliver in an agile and features-based method, and it is a much more user-friendly product compared to other products in market."
"Technical support is very good."
"Its ability to scale."
 

Cons

"The major drawbacks were in defect management and session sheet creation."
"It requires a lot of post-process testing of our products. It would be an improvement if those tests weren't necessary."
"Understanding of story points and velocity, ease of using reporting/dashboard widgets, and templates for imports need improvement."
"The testing module that we are used to, that wasn't there at all."
"We've not used it yet, and we're just kind of muddling through."
"In the world of Java, it currently supports Eclipse but not NetBeans."
"The tool is good enough to keep track of the information, but not mature enough to have a great Dashboard that tracks all levels of changes."
"Resource allocation and management across multiple products. We have the same resources working on multiple products each with their own releases, and Agile Manager does not handle this well, so the overloading or underloading of resources is difficult to monitor."
"I think the interface could be a little bit more visual and less wordy."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"I would like for workspace admins to be able to hide projects in the Project Picker and not lose any historical data; make them invisible to certain users, visible to certain users, depending on permission sets. That would be lovely."
"More importantly, we are seeing internal challenges from Atlassian because of their highly integrated suite that enables further automation and centralization of activities that are also highly necessary – messaging notifications cued off builds, collaboration on Solution Architecture Documentation, etc."
"It only went down a few times which is very inconvenient when you run your entire team on it."
"Our biggest struggle right now is that we're a SaaS customer, and that we don't have access to the database behind the scenes."
"Integration with Git is not very good."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Frankly, pricing is expensive and needs to be carefully planned for when budgeting."
"Rally Software costs $50 a month, and for a base account, that price is acceptable."
"It is expensive and may not be worthwhile for a small company."
"I understand it's a little more expensive. That is why many people prefer Jira."
"The license costs are fairly high as compared to some of the other solutions out there."
"We are always looking for a discount, if the solution was less expensive it would be a benefit."
"From a price point, it's a cost effective solution for our needs."
"I don't know the exact pricing, but I think the tool is priced high. They provide quality workmanship, good software, regular upgrades, and they're always attentive and listen to users. Everything comes with a price. I think it's an expensive solution compared to Jira or other competitors, but it's a complete package."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise113
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Rally Software?
Rally offers many features that help the management of activities, coordination, alignment and reports, which applies agility across the organization. If I were to highlight a particular feature, i...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rally Software?
The setup cost is expensive. I was not responsible for the license part, but it was on a yearly basis.
What needs improvement with Rally Software?
Reporting is my main area of concern. Additionally, the migration activity and portability are important areas for improvement. If I needed to move from Jira to Rally Software, having built-in port...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Agile Manager, HPE Agile Manager
CA Agile Central, Rally Enterprise, CA Agile Training, CA Agile Coaching, CA Agile Academy, CA Agile Management , CA ALM
 

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Sample Customers

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