We performed a comparison between Jira Align and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The OKR experience is great."
"I've had no issues with Align's stability."
"The most valuable features are the ability to customize the entries and to update them quickly. Since the new version they released, we started utilizing the customization features to create specific codes and symbols for our teams that were not available before. For example, in team A each person had their own symbols and we had our own demarcation. When our project or task was completed, we had a code that we could enter online that let the main project managers know that it was time to remove it."
"It's easy to set up."
"In my previous experience, the Portfolio and Structure feature in Jira is really valuable because it assists with forecasting for projects."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Jira Align is the overall team vision."
"Jira Align's most valuable feature is the view of strategic control reports for high-level directors."
"We use the roadmap features, and we're getting better at using dates to use the roadmap so that we can see if we're on target for work."
"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."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Kanban board."
"The product has excellent customizable reports."
"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."
"One area for improvement is that Jira Align's double menu and multiple menus can be difficult for new users."
"It would be helpful if they had something for capacity planning that was simpler to understand."
"Other companies that are competitors of Jira and Confluence, they are able to create their active directories for the vendors that don't come in internally."
"The synchronization between Jira and Jira Align takes too long."
"Maybe some of the terms and the connectivity could be improved."
"One of the biggest issues I found in the new version was once we clicked on one of the tasks that were specifically for our group and went to look at the other portfolios in other areas we had to browse all the way back to the beginning. If you click the back button, it would not work, it stayed the same place. Additionally, if you click on page B, but then you wanted to go back to page A it would not go back to page A. You would have to browse back to the portfolio and then find your group again and open it. This was the only issue that I had with it and I am not sure if it is a Jira issue or it was because of the way the site was laid out."
"The workflows are scalable from portfolio to individual level but can sometimes be complex to navigate."
"We have experienced errors with the internal server that occurs frequently."
"What I don't like about it is that it is really hard to find old work to reference information and use the reporting section of the application in terms of trying to analyze trends. If I am trying to find out which interfaces took this long and I want to compare and measure improvement from one quarter to another quarter, the reporting mechanism within Rally is very troublesome. They have an Excel plugin that you're supposed to use, but you literally have to pull the raw data out before you can do the analysis. You can't do it within Rally, and if you can, it is a secret, and I don't know how to do it. It should have better, easier, and user-friendly reporting without having to use the Excel add-in. It is very clunky. There is a lot of data in there, but it is not organized in such a way that makes it intuitive. You really have to kind of look for where do you put your documentation or dates. Some customization is available, but it is not plug-and-play like Jira. When I switched from TFS to Jira, I just went and started using Jira, whereas with Rally, you kind of have to really get in and figure out what you need to do before you set stuff up, or you're going to get yourself stuck. You can just start using Jira and be successful."
"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."
"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."
"We'd like better dashboards to make visibility better."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 16 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 8th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 6 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.4, while Rally Software is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Jira Align writes "Creates visibility, has lots of reports, and removes silos". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rally Software writes "User-friendly, with project tree and backlog features". Jira Align is most compared with ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Planview AgilePlace and ServiceNow DevOps, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, Micro Focus ALM Quality Center and Atlassian ALM. See our Jira Align vs. Rally Software report.
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