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 most valuable features in Jira Align are the dashboard and the reporting feature."
"Jira Align is an intuitive tool that features a roadmap view...The initial setup was straightforward...Jira Align is definitely worth the money."
"It's easy to set up."
"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."
"Velocity and reporting provide good visibility, burndown charts, and particularly velocity measurement."
"The product has good visualization capabilities and helps to see the different dimensions of a plan."
"The product's most valuable feature is CMDB for services desk management and backlog projects."
"Jira is one of the most widely used tools in the market, and it has a vast amount of data already stored in it. Jira Align is crucial in orchestrating this data and providing valuable views and insights. However, it's essential for tools like Jira Align to offer configurable features. While complete customization might not always be feasible for enterprise-level tools, configurable features allow organizations to drive transformation accordingly."
"The Defect feature. In one view you can see all your defects and you can push them into the different releases."
"We can work better and at a higher quality, than we were able to before."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Kanban board."
"The reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us."
"CA Agile Central helps the entire organization run like one powerful team."
"Tech support is very responsive, helpful, and available."
"Having that view into features and roadmap from product to delivery teams, and where they are going, then execute on."
"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."
"The synchronization between Jira and Jira Align takes too long."
"Maybe some of the terms and the connectivity could be improved."
"Deployment was very complex."
"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."
"There are fewer customization options in Jira Align due to how it was designed."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The tool's corporate pricing is expensive."
"In my company, we found the solution to have many issues regarding its ability to handle claims and other processes since the solution is not available on a single window."
"I think the interface could be a little bit more visual and less wordy. Right now, it seems like it's just a lot of text on the page. In other ticketing systems where it's more visual, you can see more of a flow. But in this one it's more just a list of tasks. I would like to see that a little bit better, especially considering it has so many great organizational features, like child tasks, different artifacts. It would be great to see it presented more appropriately."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"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."
"There's a lot of support for Scrum and Agile, but it needs something for the Kanban side."
"I think there is a missing link with the development activity. Some developers are pushing in new versions of the code, but you cannot make the link from the user story to a specific application version."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
"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."
"The Reporting feature can improve, especially around executive summaries and dependency mapping."
Jira Align is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 35 reviews while Rally Software is ranked 6th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 116 reviews. Jira Align is rated 8.0, while Rally Software is rated 8.2. 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 "A solution that enables users to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects". Jira Align is most compared with OpenText ValueEdge, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, JIRA Portfolio, Planview AgilePlace and Targetprocess, whereas Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TFS, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Digital.ai Agility. See our Jira Align vs. Rally Software report.
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