About Rally

Rally (formerly CA Agile Central) is a cloud-based project management software system. It is suitable for organizations of all sizes. Key features include team collaboration, project management, product and portfolio management, analytics and metrics, and platform integration. Rally's team collaboration feature allows for group chat and chats threading. The project management capability of Rally offers features such as a single view of team progress, a customized dashboard for Kanban, Scrum, and any other approach used by organizations along with burndown, burnup, velocity, and flow reports. Rally provides multi-level and integrated roadmaps, which are connected to delivery reports. Organizations and teams can define investment categories, value scores and workflows, which allows them to effectively utilize the resources. This system also provides comprehensive reports on productivity, predictability, responsiveness, and quality along with performance reviews across the company.
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Rally does not have a free version.

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Kathy
Kathy
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
3

5
Reviewed on 13/12/2020

Best Agile Tracking Tool

Rally is a great collaborative tool for the whole agile team to use easily and track sprints efficiently. It works really well with other MS products as well for export/import.

Pros

Rally is the best tool I've used for agile development tracking. The UI is the clearest and the layout is the most intuitive I've seen on the market. It's so easy to display all defects or all stories, tasks, etc. I love the export functions and how simply one can customize own reports.

Cons

It is really expensive and hard to customize fields for sub-projects that are different than the parent projects.

santosh
  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 20/5/2022

Excellent Project Management Platform - Rally

The overall experience with Rally is excellent. We use Rally extensively for managing all the employees work performance and implementing epics and features to the users with efficient way possible. The timelines could be more clear for anyone looking for quicker updates.

Pros

- The most important feature that we use the on daily cadence is, managing projects, creating features, splitting up user stories for better management, time tracking, task managements for user stories to track the completion of the feature. We also create Dashboards for tracking and managing resources efficiently

Cons

- The support can be more effective for any queries or cases we create.
- There could be more UI features that the Rally product team can bring up for better user experience
- The pricing can be better when purchasing with bundles and packages with heavy user license

Alternatives Considered

Jira

Reasons for Switching to Rally

- The pricing was better than other products available in the market. The support was very much ready for onboard us quickly and help with the setup and go live as soon as possible.
vignesh
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
3
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 17/1/2025

good Usecase and requirments sprint management tool

I like the tool for spring and usecases management ,But still it has to bring more features that Jira has

Pros

great task management and sprint tasks management tool

Cons

the configration setup and moving stories from one sprint to another needs lot of work

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
3
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
0

3
Reviewed on 8/8/2022

Outdated UI with subpar features

Pros

Theme, feature, and other deliverable linking is easy. Categories could be customized easily, with some good security controls.

Cons

Outdated UI, search functionality was slow and unreliable, and controls were not easy to use.

Kristiana
  • Industry: Commercial Real Estate
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 17/10/2024

Rally Review

Pros

Easy to navigate. Can move throughout screens and is intuitive for user.

Cons

A little busy. There is a lot on the screens.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
3
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 10/4/2019

Ca Agile Central - Central for Agile methodologies

We work on development project, We get the work from business in the form of User stories. The user stories and broken down in to Defects and assigned to developers to work. CA agile is tailor made for projects which follow agile methodologies, it has planned set of rules and guidelines that helps. Monitoring and report creation process is simplified. it takes times to get used to the tool, once we are good with the process, it is very easy tool to use. Go for it!

Pros

1. Software is build around agile methodologies , best suited for projects using agile.
2. Easy to use, assign the unit of work to a respective team and resource
3. Tailor made for projects which involves a lot of teams within it.
4. Monitoring,Status of work can be easily determined.
5. Dashboards and reports are inbuilt and can be customized.
6. Separate process for sprint planning tabs are available.
7. Different stages of work flow like Backlog, analysis,development, test readiness and test execution and their count along with customization are really helpful.
8. Integrates well with CICD pipeline tools like Jenkins and Sonar Qube etc.

Cons

1. Very few fields options are available. We were using ALM before moving on Agile central, all the fields in ALM was not mapped to CA agile. It was difficult to map the fields since it has very less field options.
2. Customization and Report creation during the initial phase was very difficult.
3. Need to depend on the Scrum master to make process changes.
4. Iniital setup of the process was difficult and transition of people from water fall to Agile using CA Agile was challenging.

Sharique
Sharique
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 30/8/2021

Rally - Premier Project Management Software for Distributed Agile Teams

Great software for modern engineering practices. Very much essential for complex program and project maangement

Pros

It enables you to execute distributed agile and scaled agile frameworks. Removes all the clutter and makes the whole process very streamlined. Data and Dashboards are available very quickly

Cons

Training and online documentation can have some improvements

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 19/4/2021

User Stories/ Tasks Review

Good product to use with multiple work management features.

Pros

- good tool to track day to day work and team's workload.

Cons

- Tasks doesn't reflects under individuals workflow if the main user story is assigned on different user's name
- Teamboard is one of the example for the above.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Think Tanks
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 12/8/2019

Nice tool but still missing key items

Pros

Its helping breaking all the User stories into many items and assigned it to the relevant team and putting also the effort , then easily you can extract report

Cons

main item that it doesn't show plan vs actual so it doesnt say anything if you are at 70% than compare to what? reports should be easily change from private to public

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 7/3/2019

Best Agile Management Tool

Pros

Following are best features :
User story management
Burn down/burn up chart
Velocity calculation
Easy Reporting
Agile life cycle management
Distributed team management using KANBAN methodology

Cons

I feel this is a best tool which really can’t be debated

Mahipal Singh
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 30/7/2022

Rally Reivews

My overall experience with rally is too good. It is ease to use and helps organization to achieve the target in the agile methodology format.

Pros

Project management is the best part of this software. It helps organization to track the project. It gives us feature to divide the project into multiple sub-project in EPICs an L2s. So, team can easily achieve the project delivers by completing the multiple EPIC. It helps team to work in agile methodology and gives exposure to do the continuous deliveries.

Cons

As of now, i don't have anything which i don't like about this software.

Sachin
Sachin
  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 27/1/2019

A useful tool for Agile Project Management

I am highly satisfied with Rally. It has helped team plan, groom, execute and track deliverables efficiently. Unwanted documentation is greatly reduced now.

Pros

* Web based an intuitive
* Supports Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and other agile frameworks
* Scalable enough to support multiple teams and portfolios
* Backlog creation, Iteration planning, Release Planning, Story creation, Milestone definition, Feature and Initiative (epic) creation, and captures many useful fields that help reduce the elaborate documentation requirements.
* Story dependencies can be tracked easily.
* Discussion tab allows capture useful discussions/ data and helps collaboration on story, feature or initiative.
* Parent - Child relationship can be established between stories
* Multiple reports can be generated that helps team measure performance and productivity.
* Iteration board, Kanban board provide realtime view of team progress.

Cons

* It does not work well with Internet Explorer browser.
* License cost is high as compared to other tools like JIRA

Sureshkumar
  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 9/12/2021

Rally - Best Agile project management Software

Overall experience has been nothing short of great. It is the best software that I have used.

Pros

Rally GUI is so easy to use and seamless. It is the best software to track the user stories and update comments on it.

Cons

There is nothing to not like about this software. Everything about it is good.

Imri
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 23/5/2022

An ok software, but there are better

Rally is good but it has a lot of work to do to be in the same league of Jira or some of those software.

Pros

I like the dragging option, the fact that it's not 100% customizable which makes it easy, one you learn it, to work with it. It makes tracking tasks and bugs quite easy and clear.

Cons

I'm missing better integration with other services, like GitHub. Also, I wish the UI would get a facelift so it would look better, cleaner and modern. Also, the way of adding user stories and defects takes a learning curve.

Janak
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
2
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 21/12/2021

Rally Is not yet mature

Pros

The project tracking with features, user stories and tasks are great.

Cons

You can get lost sometimes when you are navigating through things.

Jetender
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 5/4/2022

Rally for Agile development and management

Easy to use and master

Pros

1. Easy to learn
2. Allows to keep track from Epic to task level efficiently
3. Helps in quick standup meeting updates
4. Good reports on project / sprint progress

Cons

There are too many options to achieve same result that often leads to confusion for new users

Ben
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 16/5/2017

Rally works, but they need to stop constantly updating the UI, which is overly complex

Pros

Tasks link to stories, stories link to features, ways to track everything. Allows you to provide a good amount of detail within the stories and acceptance criteria

Cons

too much effort to link stories to features, too hard to see the details on the features if they are similarly named. task creation and advancing is easy, but the page layout of stories is now convoluted and confusing

Mary
  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

5
Reviewed on 24/1/2019

Great agile tool!

We use the charts and graphs to show management our progress for every iteration.

Pros

Really helps to manage user stories and planning for iterations. Managing back logs is this tool is helpful, so items are not missed or ignored.

Cons

Learning the tool took a while, training could be better.

Deborah
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 14/3/2017

Rally for Agile Project Management and Portfolio Management

Rally has expanded their functionality since Computer Associates purchased Rally . I like the alignment with the Scaled Agile framework. Allowing the roll up of stories to features and capabilities to align with value stream has been instrumental in educating our executive leadership team and prioritizing our portfolio

Pros

Integration and customization support allow us to interface with our internal applications

Cons

Continue to expand the portfolio and program management roll up and reporting features

Tal
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
0

3
Reviewed on 3/12/2019

Agile methodology in the cloud

I get things done using rally, took some time to get used to it, but it delivers the Agile way.

Pros

It's a great way to communicate company wide, easy to create user stories and breaking them down into tasks, the latest UI upgrade was a big improvment.

Cons

Gets laggy sometimes, can't see attached images properly once there is more than one image,
mostly small quirks, all in all it's a good product.

Kevin
  • Industry: Defense & Space
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 16/6/2021

Powerful Agile Tool

Pros

Allows customizable views, as in Kanban, for any needed software development methodology.

Cons

Very expensive software in which utilizing all of the features is definitely a challenge for management.

Sudhakar
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 22/9/2020

Agile Management Tool

This is user friendly application and any one new to agile methodology can learn the agile using this tool so fast.

Pros

This tool is easy to access and faster in response. GUI is very simple and anyone can understand the functionalities easily

Cons

The application is often down and needs lot of maintenance window as it is down at least two weeks once

Jerry
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4.5
Ease of Use
3.5
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 14/1/2016

Agile in the cloud

Pros

It is intuitive to create stories, break down to tasks and assign them to the team. The reporting features are very useful for executive summary in my monthly report. Easy to track the progress. It truly has the agile aspects build in for software development environment. The customizable dashboard allows you to track multiple projects and display the most important graphics on one screen.

Cons

The QA process is a little bit difficult to use. Since we are using a separate bug reporting system, it doesn't really integrate with it. The process of creating test cases and report defects are way too complicated for our environment. Overall, I don't have too much complaints against Rally.

Joseph
Joseph
  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
2
Functionality
2
Ease of Use
1
Customer Support
0

2
Reviewed on 15/4/2021

Needs improvement

I have been using this for a couple months on a critical side project.

Pros

IT is a ticket management software it does that well but thats about all it gets done well. It has many issuse.

Cons

My biggest complaint is that is is overly complicated and buggy. It constantly times you out and returns you to the home page rather than were you left off.

Assel
  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 18/3/2022

Good software for Agile project management

Pros

It is easy to use, easy to set up. Efficient to track user stories, defects. Easy to move items from one state to another.

Cons

Not so customizable as Jira. 1 defect can not be linked to 2 or more user stories.

Ogechi
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 20/4/2021

Good project management tool

My org implemented rally to increase efficiency and collaboration across projects, and so far it has been a good experience. It does take more time than what I'm accustomed to enter all the stories and tasks, however my manager finds the tracking capabilities very useful. It has helped encourage an agile mindset within my team.

Pros

Rally allows my team to create user stories, each with several tasks that can be tracked and updated. It helps to estimate timelines and offers a line of sight into each team member's progress.

Cons

The user interface can be confusing, especially when first getting acquainted with the software. I would appreciate a more stream-lined, intuitive interface.

Michael
Michael
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 10/8/2021

Great for Agile Environment

Makes managing an agile work environment so easy.

Pros

Rally is critical software for Agile work environments. I just started using it, but it's fairly user friendly and has several features for the pro users out there.

Cons

As a new user, it is a tad difficult to get up and running. Wish it was a little more simple.

Dave
  • Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
2

4
Reviewed on 29/9/2020

Heavyweight Agile tool

Pros

It can do nearly anything an agile team needs to manage process and organization of work

Cons

The UI is very bland and could really use some UX improvements

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 3/6/2021

Rally for Bugs

Our company has used it for some time, it is the standard for our engineering teams when reviewing firmware updates/bugs.

Pros

Easy to use, I got access and was able to use it without any training. It seems to be very intuitive when you have access set up correctly.

Cons

When projects/products/programs are created but not populated there is no information presented. Others have to authorize access as well.

Jayasimha
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4.5
Ease of Use
4.5
Customer Support
0

4.5
Reviewed on 26/1/2016

Rally Review

Pros

Ease of use to manage Agile development process. Easily Manage User Stories, track task progress

Cons

Currently we manage bugs/issues in a separate software tool. We tried managing bugs through this software, din't like how bugs were converted to a User Story, rather than a task under a Story

Uddipan
Uddipan
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 5/6/2021

Rally - Best Collaboration

Rally is a good collaboration Tool with helps both product and engineering teams with good features like test management

Pros

Rally helped to plan work with sub tasks and it has some unique features. Test automation feature is very useful

Cons

required to be more user friendly and enable quick access. Dashboards like roadmap needs to be improved as well

Mark
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 14/9/2021

very clean/simple but powerful interface

Pros

We use rally to manage our agile projects. The options in the tool allow us to easily manage our user stories and track changes all the way up to production. We switched from another product, and found that rally had many more options and much more flexibility. The user interface is clean and intuitive, and flexible enough for our site to add our specific customizations

Cons

I have not found any cons yet, and am satisfied with the product.

Yuwen
  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
3.5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
0

3.5
Reviewed on 26/1/2016

Rally review

Pros

show progress chart, define projects and tasks, total team progress

Cons

easiness of update status, not update automatically to-do time,

Brock
  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 16/3/2022

Widely Used

Pros

This product is widely used in our organization for digital agile program management.

Cons

There could be better tools available to accurately estimate costs of the project.

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