The #1 Partner for Agile Success

Rally Software helps organizations perfect the art of software development through Agile and Lean practices.

Agile development practices are quickly becoming a mainstream approach to software development because they shorten development cycles, minimize risk and help better prioritize features and customer requests. In fact, in a recent third-party study, Rally customer BMC Software was proven to have development cycles that were nearly three times faster than the industry average and one quarter the expected number of defects with double the team size.

Rally is the #1 partner for Agile Success through its family of products, coaching and community support. With a dedicated focus on Agile, Rally helps software organizations of all sizes incrementally adopt Agile practices to shorten their development cycles and collaborate across distributed teams and silos. Rally’s on-demand Agile lifecycle management products were honored with three-time Jolt Product Excellence Awards (the industry’s Oscars) in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and currently support 900 customers, 20,000 projects and 35,000 users in 50 countries. Rally’s end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include: Agile University, the largest online source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility.

Rally’s Agile products, online training center and Web 2.0 portal enable customers to successfully adopt Agile practices from product idea to delivery.

Agile Lifecycle Management Products

From an initial Agile pilot to enterprise-wide deployment, Rally’s Agile lifecycle management products give teams the visibility and collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in rapid iterations.

• Rally Community Edition is free for up to 10 users and provides effortless Agile project management for single release teams, including defect management.
• Rally Enterprise is full-powered Agile project and program management, including hierarchical requirements management, test and defect management and integration with development, test and build environments.
• Rally’s Integration Hub with popular open source and commercial tools extend existing enterprise tooling investments, reduce implementation costs and seamlessly unify technical and role-based silos into a collaborative Agile dashboard.

As a powerful, on-demand Web service, Rally starts fast and scales easily across platforms and geographies for low-risk, low-cost deployment.

Agile Training and Coaching

Agile University is an online source for information and registration of public Agile training courses taught by the industry’s leading coaches. Currently 90 expert trainers offer 40 different courses through Agile University from basic certified ScrumMaster training to advanced Agile topics. Agile University also offers a unique solution for independent Agile trainers by providing logistics, registration and promotional services for their courses.

Agile Community for Collaboration

Agile Commons is a Web 2.0 community that encourages Agile practitioners to interact, exchange knowledge and ultimately improve the results of their Agile practices. Since launching in August 2007, over 3,300 people have joined Agile Commons to create 150 different topic areas. In 2007, Agile Commons was named runner-up for the Forrester Groundswell awards for its innovative and effective use of social networks and communities. In a pioneering demonstration of customer-driven Agile development, Agile Commons includes a Rally User Community in which Rally’s product roadmap is posted publicly, so users can prioritize and collaboratively design upcoming feature enhancements.

People Are the Most Important Ingredient

At Rally, we know that people are the most important ingredient in success. That’s why we’ve assembled an all-star team with decades of combined experience coaching software organizations and creating award-winning applications. So whether you're starting to explore Agile methods, entering your first pilot project, or rolling out Agile to the entire organization, you can count on Rally to provide your teams with the knowledge, expert coaching and tooling needed to succeed.