"It's easy to use."
"The tools for requirement capture we have found very useful."
"The integration with Git works well."
"You can customize the board according to your needs."
"I have found almost all of the features valuable because it integrates well with your Microsoft products. If a client is using the entire Microsoft platform, then TFS would be definitely preferable. It integrates with the digital studio development environment as well."
"The most valuable feature is integration, particularly if you have a .NET application."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"The traceability is valuable. While managing the workflows, it was always nice to have that traceability from requirements and all the way through design. It integrates with Microsoft Test Manager, and you can have everything that is related to a requirement attached to it."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"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."
"The stability of IBM Rational ALM could be improved."
"One of the complaints from users is that they have to click buttons too many times for just a simple task. Changing this would lead to a better user experience."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"It has been really dated. When you start to work more in an agile environment, it is not really that flexible. They tried to replicate the look and feel of Jira, but it is not quite there. It was nice to use in the past, but it is not as flexible now with the changing development environments and methodologies."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"The execution of test cases could stand improvement."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
IBM Rational ALM is ranked 18th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 4 reviews while TFS is ranked 5th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 21 reviews. IBM Rational ALM is rated 7.2, while TFS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ALM writes "Integrates well with Git and the technical support is helpful, but the interface should be more modern". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". IBM Rational ALM is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, PTC Integrity, Polarion ALM and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and Micro Focus ALM Quality Center. See our IBM Rational ALM vs. TFS report.
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