Agile Manager [EOL] vs Rally Software comparison

OpenText and Broadcom are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Additionally, 86% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Agile Manager [EOL]

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91% willing to recommend

Agile Manager [EOL]

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Categories and Ranking

Agile Manager [EOL]

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Rally Software

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

120

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (8th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (7th)

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it_user739560

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.

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Rakhee Srivastava

Sr. Information Architect and Principal Consultant UX at Tech Mahindra Limited

Real-time dashboards provide clear insights into project progress and team velocity

Rally Software is easy to use for Agile project methodology because it follows Scrum and Kanban, helping with sprint planning and backlog management. Rally Software provides real-time dashboards for different kinds of stakeholders and governance, giving clear insights into project progress, team velocity, and potential risks. Backlog management is present in the product, allowing prioritization of tasks. The dashboards provide all types of insights through analytics. Capacity planning helps optimize resource allocation, ensuring balanced workload and realistic sprint commitments for our projects. The solution integrates with GitHub, and we can also integrate with Excel and CI/CD pipelines.

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Pros

"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."

"Integration with HPE ALM/QC, Jenkins and Subversion allows us to view the project’s health through one product."

"Now we can do shorter cycles and have better traceability, and we have this integration between AGM and ALM, as I said."

"The tool gave great visibility on the project work with real-time analytics and dashboards."

"It is helping us organize and manage our agile development process to get solutions to market faster."

"With all of the different features, it's really user-friendly and syncs with Quality Center ALM, which is our testing tool."

"To me, the difference between what they're using now, the Atlassian product, and Agile Manager is that Agile Manager is much more scalable."

"It has a good sprint task board with the ability to export tasks to Excel and filter by team member, and all the graphs, burndown charts and reporting are user friendly and quick."

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"CA Agile Central is a tool that solves the agile-at-scale challenge, and is still user friendly enough to handle non-IT work loads."

"The linkages between artifacts, going from epic to feature, from feature to user story is very native and works very well."

"Agile Central makes the transition easier and we don't have to think twice about how to implement this or keep track of features and user stories."

"When we moved to Agile, we were just using standard scrambled writings on the wall, and we knew with the scale of our organization we needed something to suit our needs, so we decided to invest in this product, which did meet our needs, especially in terms of scalability, as we knew that there were going to be so many licenses we would need."

"We have many teams that work on different modules and every team can follow what the other team is doing at the moment, so as to take a decision about taking the user story into the sprint or wait, till the dependent team finishes its work."

"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."

"This solution saves us lots of time and it is central for everyone."

"I was able to create epics for our budgeting concerns and it helped me link everything together."

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Cons

"This product does not fully cover the SDLC. The test team cannot track test cases or connect them with test cases."

"Most of the enhancement requests we have are minor, but the biggest challenge we have is around integrations."

"I think the biggest issues that I've seen, and this is a personal view of mine, is that most of the HPE products have a common look and feel to them."

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

"It requires a lot of post-process testing of our products. It would be an improvement if those tests weren't necessary."

"This one kind of caught us by surprise, and all our evaluations from it doing demos to the team that was going to be using it."

"There is definitely a maturity curve that Agile Manager needs to go through with. It's still not there, and it definitely needs to grow."

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"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."

"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."

"Integration with Git is not very good."

"In terms of improvement, perhaps some more metrics. If they could add some additional, that would be cool."

"The stronger CA can get on dependency mapping the better; that's the biggest hiccup, as you're setting up your features they should make it easier to flag the dependencies, either across features or across projects."

"It is hard to track the changes. For example, we're in sprint 25, and then we have 26, 27, 28, and 29. Throughout that whole time, we're developing pipelines in Azure, moving to GitHub, creating pipelines, and working with teams. But sometimes, we need to revisit specific decisions made in previous sprints, like pipeline details. Maybe it's in our Azure Wiki, GitHub, or Teams, but it's not always consistent. I wish I could search for all tasks or stories related to that particular effort without needing to know everyone's individual stories or features."

"Sometimes it's hard for them to quickly search for a user story."

"There have been some downtimes with it, but they're fairly short."

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"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."

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

"It is expensive and may not be worthwhile for a small company."

"Rally Software costs $50 a month, and for a base account, that price is acceptable."

"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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Manufacturing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	12

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	110

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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...

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Rally Software is affordable because our customers also prefer it, and I have never heard concerns about pricing preventing us from using this tool.

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While I'm not heavily involved in project management tools, I am familiar with these tools. One area for improvement might be the rigidity in role and access configurations, which require many proc...

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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

Overview

Agile project management solution to plan, execute and track Agile projects. Agile teams can improve Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Execution, and gain more Visibility and Insight into Agile projects using SaaS or on-premise deployment.

Key Features include: Release and User Story and Defect Management, Development Tools Integration, Team/Resource Management, Rest APIs, Micro Focus ALM/QC/PPM Synchronizer, Regular releases driven by user feedback, Modern, clean, intuitive UI and SAFe^TM Gold Certified.

OpenText

With Rally Software, you can plan, prioritize, manage, track, and continuously improve your work so that you can deliver the value that your customers need with speed, quality, and efficiency. Our enterprise-class Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS platform provides visibility into progress, roadblocks, and dependencies across multiple teams, projects, and programs. This allows you to align to your strategic goals and create better business results, and to do it all in a single system of record.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

Trizetto, Discount Tire and Siemens

Physicians Mutual, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare, Editora Abril, Tata Communications, Level 3 Communications, Seagate, TomTom, Philips, Hiscox, Physicians Mutual, MYOB

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