It's been just over a week since Rally's IPO on the NYSE under the symbol RALY. We're settling back into our everyday work, and as I look back, I am again humbled to be one of the companies that trade in the public markets, and proud to be listed on the NYSE.
The morning of our IPO, I got to see Rally's logo on the front of the iconic...
05/21/2013
in Engineering
Q: How do you keep a large, enterprise-scale platform above system-availability targets while simultaneously enabling application pages to load as fast as possible?
A: Very carefully.
As a SaaS product adds new features and customers, it naturally needs refactoring to improve performance and scalability. At Rally, we recently...
05/20/2013
in On-Premise
What happens when you don’t scale your Agile adoption above the team level? You miss out on the benefits that progressive companies are already getting. They are innovating faster and aligning their work with what their business portfolio is funding. They are taking advantage of market opportunities because they revved up their execution...
05/17/2013
in Product
You're applying Agile at scale, planning and doing work across a large program spanning multiple development teams. You might be using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe): a proven, publicly available process for applying Lean and Agile practices at enterprise scale.
You need to plan releases to coordinate and...
05/16/2013
in Agile
The Scaled Agile Framework®, or SAFe, provides a recipe for adopting Agile at enterprise scale. It is illustrated in the big picture.
As Scrum is to the Agile team, SAFe is to the Agile enterprise.
SAFe tackles the tough issues – architecture, integration, funding, governance and roles at scale. It is field-tested...
05/16/2013
in Agile
Countdown: 17 days until RallyON! As we get closer to the event, we are knee-deep in content (and planning a welcome reception that will knock your socks off). We're refining the sessions and how they map to our overall themes of people, practice, and technology. This year's conference adds a new focus on Rally's platform, and...
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08/07/2012
in Product
Hi, I’m Ryan. I’m a regular poster over at the Rally Engineering Blog. Over there, it’s well known that I’m a keyboard fanatic. Recently, I even hinted about a snazzy feature I was implementing during hackathon.Ever since I started using Rally, the fact that I needed to grab the mouse to do anything drove me nuts. I love the keyboard...
08/14/2012
in Developer
Tyler Dillerstone of HomeAway was like many of us and used large sticky notes in his team area to make a clear visualization of stories. As I am sure most of you know by now, Kanban teams like to make as many things as clear and obvious as possible and their work on the Kanban board is never the least of these.
One of the main problems...
12/06/2012
in Agile
Happy Birthday RPM!
One year ago, with great fanfare, we launched Rally Portfolio Manager (RPM), Rally’s Agile Portfolio Management solution, aiming to bring Agile principles to the strategic level. To celebrate this important milestone, we want to share with you what we’ve learned from our early adopters.
Over the past year, many of...
09/12/2012
in Agile
The Five Flawless Steps to Building a Strong Executive Leadership Team
Step 5: Discover the Clear and Elevating Goal that Skyrockets Performance
So here we are at the fifth flawless step to building a strong executive team. I’ve placed each of these five flawless steps in order of (1) how ready members are to truly face that step,...
07/31/2012
in Engineering
Ten years is a long time for a human. In compute cycles ten years rivals the age of the universe (think dog years but way faster). Rally just turned ten and our codebase is getting a facelift.
Our existing weekly deployment process approximately looks something like this:
git commit(s)
execute many, many tests on CI server...
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