We performed a comparison between Rally Software and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I was able to create epics for our budgeting concerns and it helped me link everything together."
"It's very user-friendly."
"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 allows us to work in a more dynamic fashion and track more of the development lifecycle."
"Reporting is much easier and faster than Micro Focus ALM, with CA AC built on web services... Also, the data is more granular when it comes to tasks, iterations, sprints, and releases."
"The metrics - collecting metrics. It's because we've used several other tools in the past, and they don't give you a full indication of how well your teams are performing, at a portfolio level, at a product level, and at the team level."
"Helps me determine how fast I can launch, go to production."
"The most valuable feature is actually creating a field within there for architectural review. So when teams are struggling or have questions on the architecture or strategy that they take, they can actually flag that particular story, release, or project. Those can then be reviewed by the architecture team and the teams actually get additional information on how to course-correct, build on the architecture that we're trying to build throughout the organization, and get over road blocks much quicker."
"TFS’s test management capability without the expensive licensing has large gaps. Users will be unable to access performance testing and coded UI testing capabilities."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"TFS' most valuable feature is the triage process. It is a robust solution that is easy to use."
"The solution is very much stable."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"It is a stable solution."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"There are few customisation options. For instance, the workflow for story cards cannot be changed out of the box from the standard (Defined, In-Progress, Completed and Accepted)."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"In terms of improvement, perhaps some more metrics. If they could add some additional, that would be cool."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."
"It requires better scalability for the implementation of the whole suite. We do not use it in that fashion, and visibility is sometimes a problem."
"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."
"I'd like the ability to customize reports without having to incur Professional Services, or having to write my own code GitHub and then implement that as a custom report. That's untenable. It's not sustainable."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
Rally Software is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 116 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Rally Software is rated 8.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Rally Software writes "Good discussion and note-taking capabilities but hard to track the changes". 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". Rally Software is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and GitLab, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, TestRail, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Visual Studio Test Professional. See our Rally Software vs. TFS report.
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