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PROS

Rally Software excels at Agile alignment, offering inline editing, easy custom view setup, and intuitive visuals to enhance collaboration.
The configurable portfolio management and parent-child relationships ensure teams have complete control and visibility over work.
It facilitates comprehensive tracking of user stories across projects, eliminating the need for scattered Excel sheets and documenting tasks in a streamlined manner.
The platform is known for its scalability and consistent technological upgrades, along with excellent tech support to align strategy and execution efficiently.
Rally Software supports global teams by providing a single source of truth, assisting in meticulous planning, resource allocation, and meeting deadlines across locations worldwide.

CONS

Rally Software needs better customization options, as changing workflows for story cards and customizing dashboards require improvements.
The reporting feature can be enhanced, especially for executive summaries and dependency mapping, and is considered cumbersome for analyzing trends.
Dependency tracking is problematic, with issues in setting up features and tracking dependent user stories, impacting the success potential of projects.
Integration capabilities need to be expanded, as connectivity with tools like GitLab, GitHub, and Jira demands improvement.
Scalability for large-scale implementations needs enhancement, as visibility and management become challenging with an increasing project scope.
 

Rally Software Pros review quotes

it_user345534 - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile Coach at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 24, 2015
We use it at the enterprise level, from the leadership to managers to teams, and everyone can use the same software easily.
it_user351489 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Software Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 17, 2015
It provides overall functionality in project management and release tracking all in one tool.
it_user352881 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 20, 2015
I think it's a great tracking tool.
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it_user352929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer II with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2015
But because of Rally, we were able to track all the users' codices, track all the features, track the capacity so that we could plan, and find out as a team what the capacity is as a team to deliver in a two-week sprint.
it_user353874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Portfolio Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 18, 2015
The most valuable features are the team-level interactions tracking of stories, features, and sprint.
it_user354006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 16, 2015
The linkages between artifacts, going from epic to feature, from feature to user story is very native and works very well.
it_user355629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Corporate Systems and Emerging Business at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2015
Agile release management is ready to go and essentially takes the Agile methodology, adding some additional components so you can understand what you can do with it and what cannot be done with it, without redefining the whole process.
it_user558003 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Developer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 16, 2016
The biggest benefit that we've found has to do with the ease of use, as we can get into the data and actually report out of it, and moving to a tool where you've got easy access to get to the data was a big win for us.
it_user558012 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sea System En at Hauwei
Dec 11, 2016
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.
it_user558051 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise / Team Agile Coach at RBC
Dec 19, 2016
The Portfolio is the most valuable feature that I found, because it allows us to drive our requirements along with planning at an enterprise level.
 

Rally Software Cons review quotes

it_user345534 - PeerSpot reviewer
Agile Coach at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 24, 2015
Also, the defect-management cycle needs work.
it_user351489 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Software Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 17, 2015
It is stable, but at times the performance is slow.
it_user352881 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Project Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 20, 2015
The reporting functionalities need improvement. Also, there's too much lag, but they're fixing that.
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it_user352929 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer II with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2015
But there were challenges with product backlog and how to track the capacity planning.
it_user353874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Portfolio Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 18, 2015
The portfolio side of it needs improving, especially integration into CA PPM.
it_user354006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 16, 2015
Being a Kanban team inside of SAFe, some of the fields that you have to fill out are a little awkward, because then you can't use the views the way you want to.
it_user355629 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Corporate Systems and Emerging Business at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2015
However, we haven't found anything as compelling as Rally.
it_user558003 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Developer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 16, 2016
We are trying to look at things across all of the teams, trying to do reporting across the whole tool, so it's a little less good there, but overall it’s pretty nice.
it_user558012 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sea System En at Hauwei
Dec 11, 2016
Stability of the product is not good.
it_user558051 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise / Team Agile Coach at RBC
Dec 19, 2016
As I've mentioned elsewhere, Kanban needs to mature a little more.