Reporting & Analytics

From standard agile reports to trend reports and agile metrics, Rally provides powerful reporting capabilities to track software teams' progress. Reports and metrics can be easily shared with all stakeholders using email and common electronic formats.

Standard Agile Reports

To assess scope change and team progress to delivery, Rally provides standard agile development reports such as iteration and release burndown, burnup and cumulative flow diagrams.

Trend Reports

Trend reports represent the empirical evidence necessary to plan based on "yesterday's weather"' a key agile principle. Rally's trends reports go beyond simple trend charts by extracting key metrics to provide status at a glance.

The velocity chart includes metrics from past iterations to predict future velocity.

The release defect trend chart highlights the number of defects accumulated over the course of a release, providing insight during release planning on technical debt to correct.

Rally uniquely provides powerful charts to track features, products and entire software solutions:

• Story burndowns for the overall progress towards delivering a specific feature, product or solution.
• Story cumulative flow diagrams to see the flow of work remaining towards delivering a feature, product or solution. By showing the amount of work currently in each state (not started, in-progress, completed, etc.), flow diagrams are essential to track lean software development activities.

On all trend charts, Rally uniquely includes metrics in the area above the chart to quickly interpret the chart and derive actionable measures.

Increase Collaboration and Transparency

Increase collaboration and transparency across your organization by sharing vital project information. Every Rally report can be emailed or exported in a variety of formats enabling easy incorporation in wikis or presentations to executives. Plus free-form annotations can be embedded to add context or interpretation before sharing with others.

Custom Reports & Mashups

While Rally provides a manageable set of actionable canned reports for teams new to agile, as teams' agility matures and processes are customized, canned reports may not suffice, and custom reports become key to making fact-based informed business decisions.

That's why Rally created the first SaaS-based data warehouse for software development, to provide flexibility in slicing and dicing your development data the way you want. Unlike most ALM vendors that rely on infrequent snapshots to build reports, Rally's analytical database is updated in near-real-time and, because it's SaaS, it requires no customer infrastructure and no setup cost.

And if your business calls for a very unique report, the Rally programmable Internet platform enables you to create mashups that combine data from different external sources. Many reports created with the Rally platform are even already available for your selection in the Rally Mashup Catalog.

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