Rally Software Introduces New Reporting and Integrations to its Four-Time Jolt Award-Winning Agile ALM Platform

Rally’s Agile Development Solutions Cut the Time and Effort to Deliver Software

BOULDER, Colo., April 7, 2009 - Rally Software Development Corp.® today unveiled the latest release of its Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. Rally release 2009.1 adds and updates a number of highly customizable reporting options while also increasing the number of free integrations with other development tools from Microsoft and Atlassian. Rally Release 2009.1 gives development and project managers greater visibility into the overall status, quality and velocity of their Agile projects and programs.

"Especially in this economy, organizations are constantly trying to improve workflow and shorten application development time," said Zach Nies, VP of Products at Rally. "With these new features and our Platform-as-a-Service architecture, development teams are able to connect across silos and gain efficiency and time to market in ways that can dramatically lower costs."

On March 11, Rally Enterprise received the Jolt Productivity Award in the Project Management Tools category. This is the fourth time Rally's Agile ALM solutions received a Jolt award, including the Jolt Product Excellence Award in the Project Management Tools category in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Rally Enterprise leverages the first programmable Internet platform for Agile lifecycle management to give teams easy and inexpensive ways to tailor ALM to their needs. Rally Enterprise enables the open collaboration and visibility that leads to enterprise Agile success.

New and enhanced reporting features and integrations available in 2009.1 include:

  • Customizable Release and Iteration Charts enable users to highly customize the way they graphically track iteration or release status.
  • Enhanced Velocity Chart gives users more insight into their team's past iteration velocity, making planning more accurate.
  • Enhanced Burndown Chart reflects up-to-the-minute project data, giving team leaders the ability to immediately see the impact of project changes to their release.
  • Enhanced Scope Change Report tracks the impact of scope changes to any iteration with faster results, improved usability and project scoping tools.
  • Agile EVM Mashup displays Agile Earned Value Management (EVM) metrics, which are an adaptation of the traditional project management practice of measuring actual value of integrated cost, schedule and scope against a baseline plan.
  • Rally Connector for Microsoft ® Visual Studio ® enables developers who update their Rally tasks in Microsoft Visual Studio to see tasks and defects assigned to other team members or those without any owner assignment.A Rally icon appears in the Visual Studio toolbar to make it easier to update work in Rally.
  • Rally Connector for Jira supports multiple project mapping between Rally and Jira.

Two additional enhancements to Rally's award-winning Agile lifecycle applications are the highest voted features from its customer community, including:

  • Recycle bin functionality provides complete security over data loss and accidental changes by allowing users to restore user stories, tasks, defects and test cases after they are deleted.
  • Screen capture tool enhancements allow users to annotate regions on the screen to provide more explanation on the screenshots they attach to defect reports in Rally.

Pricing and Availability

Enhancements in Rally 2009.1 are currently available to all customers. Rally's Agile lifecycle management solutions are available in two editions. Rally Community Edition is free for up to 10 users, and Rally Enterprise Edition starts at $35/user/month. For detailed product capabilities, see Rally's Edition Comparison guide at www.rallydev.com/agile_products/editions/

About Rally

Rally is the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) dedicated to making distributed development organizations faster and leaner by dramatically cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. Rally's products were honored with four consecutive Jolt awards (the software industry's equivalent of the Oscar® award) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The company's end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include Agile University, the largest source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility. As of January 15, 2009, Rally supports 1,500 corporate customers, 33,000 projects and 54,000 users in 50 countries. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

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Press Contact: Anne Greenhaw
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