Rally's flagship product was really, really bad when I last used it a few years ago. I'm curious if it's gotten better since they acquired AgileZen. The Flowdock acquisition is interesting, I wonder how they'll tie that in to the rest of the products.
I was using RallyDev in our last project and liked it quite a bit. Fairly easy to use and pretty responsive. I'm not a big fan of scrum but RallyDev made it a bit more palatable to me.
Like I said, it may have changed. It's been a few years. It was very difficult to use compared to Pivotal Tracker. Lots of fields to enter a story card, no live updating. I had to constantly remind my team to go in and update their cards, because they hated doing it. It would time out after a few hours, so they couldn't leave it open all day. Navigation was also cumbersome. You had to go to a bunch of different pages to see everything.
When we switched to Pivotal Tracker it was a breath of fresh air. Everything updated in real time, so if two people were making changes, they would see them immediately. Everything was all on one screen, and it never timed out so they could just leave it open all day. I never had to remind them to update their story cards again.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 33.7 ms ] threadWhen we switched to Pivotal Tracker it was a breath of fresh air. Everything updated in real time, so if two people were making changes, they would see them immediately. Everything was all on one screen, and it never timed out so they could just leave it open all day. I never had to remind them to update their story cards again.
http://www.rallydev.com/more-cowbell
It's good for a laugh.
I really hope it won't be bundled and turned into a component into some enterprise bloatware.