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 p ractitioners. 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.
Rally Software
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Boulder, CO
80301
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