We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure DevOps and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"This platform provides a large span of tools and technologies."
"The CI/CD pipeline setup is more user-friendly. You can manage various stages, and there are over 400+ plugins available for each stage."
"Two of the most valuable features include the integrated project management suite, which consolidates source code and project management in a single location, and its powerful reporting capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is that it's fully integrated, where we have a single place to do everything that we need."
"I really like the Microsoft DevOps survey."
"The extensibility of the work item forms and customizations as well as the backend API to query the data, et cetera, and manipulate the data programmatically are all very valuable aspects of the product."
"The available Kanban board is the best feature for management decisions."
"It's a pretty problem-free solution."
"The product has excellent customizable reports."
"It scales very well. It improves in technology constantly and gets up to speed with the latest and greatest."
"It helps with getting the alignment between strategy and execution for the product teams, all the way down to the delivery teams."
"With this product, searching for historical information or the evolution of the requirement, detecting conflict between projects has helped a lot."
"The transparency it allows us to provide, both from the team level all the way through the executive level within the company and the work that we are doing."
"It has allowed the quality assurance team to keep all information in sync with the application requirements and user stories for our general development."
"The reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us."
"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."
"We are facing some problems because the capacity can only be measured within a project. It cannot be measured across multiple projects. So, the reporting needs to be enhanced, and there should be more graphs to be able to easily give the upper management insights about all the employees from different departments. It will be helpful for employee management. Currently, the managers over here are using Power BI for insights because the functionality of Azure DevOps Boards is not enough. So, we have to export the data into another visualization tool and get the results."
"Its price can also be reduced. It would be great if they are a little bit more competitive in terms of pricing because many open-source products are currently available in the market."
"Reporting across multiple projects could be improved."
"Non-functional testing such as security testing, log testing, and performance testing can be improved with a better visualization."
"I think that they have some menus there that are not very well placed."
"The optimization feature in Microsoft Azure DevOps needs improvement. Control over multiple projects could also be improved."
"I would like to see better interoperability with the agile scaling frameworks."
"When converting to DevOps, it was difficult to map."
"The Reporting feature can improve, especially around executive summaries and dependency mapping."
"I would like to see more Kanban support. As it stands, it doesn't seem to have the features or the layouts that the teams really need to be able to execute their tasks. It almost tries to force you into more of a Scrum style."
"A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"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 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."
"It could improve by being self-organizing: user stories, different hierarchies, and different perspectives. Not just as a single hierarchical structure, but something that can be multidimensional."
"We want Rally to generate OKRs, to allow teams to record the OKRs, and then the OKRs can be mapped to the epics and there is organizational alignment."
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 126 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "A solution that enables users to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Jira, TFS, Jira Align, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and GitLab. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Rally Software report.
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