Agile Manager [EOL] vs Rally Software comparison

"How you write your user stories, and the requirements gathering, in Agile Manager is pretty good."

"Its ability to scale."

"Rally Software provides the capability to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects, which can be challenging to predict...Rally Software enables us to schedule tasks better, allocate resources, and meet project deadlines."

"The main ways that I used it when I was in it day to day was keeping up with the burn rate within the teams. Also, to track at the feature level too, as far as how we were doing with actually being able to deliver that feature."

"The metrics - collecting metrics. It's because we've used several other tools in the past, and they don't give you a full indication of how well your teams are performing, at a portfolio level, at a product level, and at the team level."

"The visibility it brings to the plan, the ability to capture tasks, and trace them all the way through the life cycle. Providing that visibility helps both me and the team, or teams, to be able to understand where we are in the development process."

"Ease of use - I don't even know when a new release is coming and I don't need to because it's so easy to use what's new."

"Helps me determine how fast I can launch, go to production."

"The configurable Portfolio Management and parent-child relationships."

"The testing module that we are used to, that wasn't there at all."

"We'd like better dashboards to make visibility better."

"From a test management perspective, it should have the capability to give you both automation and manual integration in one place."

"As it is right now, it does not support automation of the quality assurance process. It just supports manual testing."

"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."

"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."

"The solution is expensive."

"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."

"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 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."

"The license costs are fairly high as compared to some of the other solutions out there."

"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."

"Frankly, pricing is expensive and needs to be carefully planned for when budgeting."

"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 understand it's a little more expensive. That is why many people prefer Jira."