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Mon 12 Mar 2012
2012.1 Rally Release
As we try to shake off the chill of winter, the Rally Product Team is excited to bring you some sunshine with the highlights of our 2012.1 Release.
There are three product areas we’d like to talk about today:
In December 2011, we were thrilled to launch Rally Portfolio Manager, the industry’s first Agile Portfolio Management solution to seamlessly integrate the strategic side of your business with execution. We have continued to make great progress in this area, gathering a ton of feedback from early adopters on what key items you need to take your planning to the next level. We clearly heard the need to be able to easily link user stories to portfolio items, which you can now do today from the Page Tools menu of a Portfolio Item.
Rally Portfolio Manager comes with three levels of planning “out of the box”, but remember you are free to create as many levels as you desire. If your organization has five levels of planning, create all five levels! You can also rename all of the levels to match your company environment exactly – with Rally, you are not limited in any way. Finally, for those of you that already have structured hierarchies for your User Stories, you can easily convert your top-level User Stories to Portfolio Items by selecting “Convert to Portfolio Item” from the ‘Actions’ menu of a User Story.
If you haven’t yet gotten started with Rally Portfolio Manager, contact Rally Support to activate it for your subscription.
Agile Project Management
On the Project Management side of the house, we’ve got lots of smokin’ hot improvements to share with you that will make your work faster, more intuitive, and more collaborative.
- Rally in multiple tabs and windows
Our number one request in Rally Ideas is done! Running Rally in multiple browser tabs has been a long-standing request, and we’re thrilled to bring you the flexibility of working how you want in your favorite browser. Many of our customers tell us that they routinely have 10 or more tabs of Rally open simultaneously, keeping track of things like Portfolio Items, Iteration Status, and Defects, for multiple projects, all in a single browser window. We have even heard of users dedicating one browser to Rally, and setting the browser “home” to be multiple Rally tabs, effectively bringing up their whole Rally world with the simple opening of a browser. Awesome.
- Direct URL for Rally pages
Related to this, every page in Rally now has its own addressable URL. Take a peek at the address bar in Rally, and if you’re feeling inspired go ahead and copy that thing. Once you have the URL you can do all sort of crazy things: email it to a co-worker, include it in a discussion thread on a user story, link to it within internal chat sites, or post it in your intranet as a list of linkable Portfolio Items. Go nuts with it.
- Share custom dashboards across the workspace
Rally dashboards are ridiculously powerful. And they practically scream out for personalization. If you are technically-inclined, you can even build panels and dashboards that query Rally web services, fold in custom applications (or Rally catalog applications), and simply display the data you want, where you want it. Subscription and Workspace Administrators can now share dashboard pages, and all users can copy a shared dashboard to their personal workspace for even more personalization. We’ve also seen teams who have built role-based dashboards so that when new people start up in Rally, they can take the standard role dashboard, copy it, and personalize.
- Dashboards scoped to Iteration or Release
This can be a powerful time saver, especially for managers who are living in multiple iterations and releases on a daily basis. With this feature, you can add dashboard panels that adhere to a drop down that contains a list of iterations or releases, making it very simple to refresh your dashboard without touching the dashboard settings.
Rally Integrations
We have a bunch of PPM integrations that communicate with Rally. Joining our existing integrations with Primavera, Daptiv, and Planisware, we have a new Rally Integration joining the family as part of this release: CA Clarity. The integration eliminates the duplication of entries for time, resource, project and task, and allows you to report the status of agile projects into CA Clarity.
We also are announcing a new Requirements Management integration with Jama Contour. This integration is an ideal solution for organizations practicing a hybrid approach to managing requirements; Agile development teams work with user stories while product teams review and approve requirements with remote stakeholders. This is especially valuable for organizations that need to formally document requirements to meet regulatory compliance and contractual commitments, common in the medical and government industries.
We also have lots of great features in the oven, and our teams are working hard to deliver enhancements as soon as they are available. One of our core principles is to deliver early and often, gather feedback, and continue to deliver. In that spirit, many of these features you have already seen here in the Product Blog, and within the Rally products. We look forward to bringing you more and more great things as they are finished.
Stay tuned for an incredible 2012!
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