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Rally Rally’s tools are easy to adopt in whole or in part to fit the changing needs of your projects.

Immediately start your team planning and tracking their iterations with free Rally Community Edition. Then, integrate test and defect management as your project matures. Seamlessly add product owners and analysts to manage feature backlogs and elaborate requirements. When scaling up to coordinate distributed teams, program managers and system architects have the tools needed to manage release roadmaps and roll-up status across projects.

Each Rally edition is a world-class Agile project management solution that supports team collaboration and improves project visibility without adding undue burden and overhead.


PRODUCT FEATURES


Agile Project Management:

  • Manage product and release backlogs that reflect the priorities of the business.
  • Drag-n-drop release planning using high-level estimates to match resource capacity and historic velocity.
  • Automatic release metrics, burn down & cumulative flow charting.
  • Compare estimates to actuals for continuous improvement.
  • Release dashboards track feature completeness, defect status and failing tests.

Requirements Management:

  • Centrally manage and prioritize requirement backlogs
  • Schedule and track requirement implementation into releases and iterations.
  • Trace and manage requirement associations to improve understanding and assess impact of changes.
  • Generate tests cases directly from requirements and link test results to show completeness

Test Management:

  • Create tests cases directly from requirements.
  • Evolve acceptance tests simultaneously with - or ahead of - the coding efforts.
  • Status dashboards automatically group test results by requirement to assess quality and readiness.
  • Everyone has access to failing tests for improved communication, easier defect re-creation and lower management burdens.

Defect Management:

  • Clean and simple Web interface guides all team members in defect submission, updating and reporting.
  • Link defects to requirement or test cases right from the submit form.
  • Schedule and track defects individually and/or in defect suites.
  • Release Defects dashboard shows which defects are preventing acceptance of key features.
  • Notifications support personal workbenches, email and RSS to alert defect owners of status updates and changes.
Program Management:
  • Interactive program roadmaps show timelines of their related projects, release milestones & iteration schedules
  • Shared program repository lets you decompose high-level features into detailed requirements that can be assigned to multiple project teams
  • Program status views roll-up feature completeness, dependencies and blocking issues from individual project teams

 

BENEFITS TO THE USER


Support all roles and activities across the Agile software development lifecycle

Rally manages a continuous flow of functionality to your business users by giving all stakeholders the real-time decision support needed to guide project success.

  • Unite Agile project management with tracking of requirements, tests and defects for simpler, low-burden management of software projects
  • Gain visibility and team collaboration needed to define, code and test in rapid iterations.
  • Real-time dashboards show status of features, quality, resources and risks.

 

Scale from small projects to distributed, multi-team programs


Rally lets development and test teams manage their iterations without undue overhead and complexity. As projects grow, product owners and analysts can define feature backlogs and elaborate requirements just-in-time.

  • Adopt and formalize Agile practices across the enterprise.
  • Match your project's complexity, collaboration needs and culture.
  • Run smaller projects with user stories, or decompose high level features into the use cases and requirements needed to synchronize distributed teams.

 

Start fast and scale easily across teams, platforms and geographies for low risk, low cost deployment
  • Highly secure, world-class infrastructure eliminates failed integrations and hidden costs of heavyweight point products and suites that quickly add up to many times your original investment.
  • Open Web services interface integrates with your development and test environment for easy data gathering and sharing of decision support information.
  • Rally is fully customizable to support your internal processes, and includes everything you need for effective collaboration regardless of your team's location, desktop hardware or deployment technology.


Adapt to deliver customer value, don't just "adhere to plan"


Rally balances your need for agility and discipline by letting you evolve customer requirements just-in-time throughout the project lifecycle. And because Rally links requirements to their scheduled work products, tests and defects, teams achieve real software success as measured by timely delivery of their customer's highest-value features.


COMPANY INFORMATION

From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally helps companies successfully adopt and scale Agile software development practices. Rally's family of Agile life cycle management products, which received the software industry's top honor of back-to-back Jolt Product Excellence awards in 2006 and 2007, map an incremental road to Agile adoption. The company's Agile University and world-renowned coaching services help mentor teams to create internal Agile experts, and its Web 2.0 community, Agile Commons, encourages knowledge sharing among Agile pRallyractitioners. Over 50 percent of the world's leading software-driven companies currently use Rally, and Rally's tools have supported its customers in more than 6,500 Agile releases. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

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Comments (2)add feed
Gus Rose: ...
How easy is it to upgrade for a full version later?
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October 08, 2007
Tammy: ...
The community edition was a great way for our team to check it out. We ended up buying a full license for our whole company a few weeks later.
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September 27, 2007
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