We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ALM, Jira, and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The word emulation and importing is good."
"We have something called the GC (global configuration), which is a unique feature compared to any other competitor we have in the ALM space."
"I would rate the stability of this product a nine out of ten."
"You can customize the board according to your needs."
"At the same time, if you're working from the architect or the designing team you, it's quite easy to manage the resources online."
"The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting of the CPU usage on the dashboard."
"It is relatively easy to use and user-friendly once the setup is complete."
"All departments can work with the same platform."
"It's flexible and it can provide a lot of different options, such as dashboards, that you can create and manage."
"The solution works well and does what it needs to do."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the configuration, being able to configure it to suit your own needs."
"The solution has been very stable overall."
"The adaptability of the Scrum and Kanban boards for other uses, with careful use of the customization features."
"We can integrate a lot of tools with the solution."
"Everything is tracked in one place."
"The most useful part is how it breaks down tasks into parents and children, manageable tasks. It has a whole project as an initiative, and then it breaks it down further and further. And then you get to actual user stories and tasks that you can sit and develop."
"The most valuable features of Rally Software are the executive dashboards, ease of use, and many other features. They have encapsulated everything that a GI can do, such as monitoring, maintaining, and then releasing. It's continuous integration and development."
"CA Agile Central provides visibility into how teams are meeting business objectives."
"It helps me evaluate teams' historical performance using velocity charts."
"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."
"It has allowed the quality assurance team to keep all information in sync with the application requirements and user stories for our general development."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"What I like most about Rally Software, in terms of using it for the agile process, is that it's clear, useful, and user-friendly. I also like that it has every field you can use for the Scrum process."
"The GUI is a little bit outdated."
"The stability of this solution can be improved."
"The directory designer manager is uncivil. The design manager is clearly really unstable."
"There is not enough beginner support material in the form of FAQs or simple training to help you get started."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"IBM Rational ALM should remove the features not used by the customers and keep this product as lightweight as possible."
"The interconnectivity between packages is a major support problem and can be improved."
"I think nowadays people are getting into Jira and other tools. What is happening is, this solution is becoming more traditional, whereas Jira and other tools are more attractive for the new users to learn and start using because of the graphical interfaces."
"Sometimes, we create the same bug with two or three different Jira tickets in my company, which leads to duplication, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution's stability could be improved, and it could be made more robust."
"It should be less expensive."
"We would like to see the integration of a lite-version of Confluence, just to manage some of the templates and documents."
"It lacks features to cover all testing aspects, so we often integrate it with other plugins or tools like X-ray."
"I would like to see test execution modules."
"In general, although we use JIRA, we never really learned how to use it properly. The learning curve of the solution is high. It has a lot of power, and yet we don't understand its capabilities."
"Grid: It is really strange that there is no possibility to edit an item in the grid. You need to go inside, and even then, not all items are editable, so you need to switch to edit mode. That's too many clicks and switches."
"More importantly, we are seeing internal challenges from Atlassian because of their highly integrated suite that enables further automation and centralization of activities that are also highly necessary – messaging notifications cued off builds, collaboration on Solution Architecture Documentation, etc."
"The Reporting feature can improve, especially around executive summaries and dependency mapping."
"It requires better scalability for the implementation of the whole suite. We do not use it in that fashion, and visibility is sometimes a problem."
"One problem I see is that if there is a dependent user story - for example, if my team is working on one thing and there is a dependent user story from another team - we can have a dependency created but we don't know if there is a change of status from the other team. That is something which is very important for Agile Central to look into so that if the other team makes any changes we will be notified as well."
"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."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
"Rally Software is highly complex, and it takes some effort to get everything tied together. But once you do, it's a satisfying experience, and the result looks beautiful. Azure, ServiceNow, and Jira do not have all the features that Rally Software provides in one place, making it an exceptional tool for project management."
