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Rally’s 2011.2 release will be available to all subscription customers this Saturday, April 30th. Here is a link to the webinar recording that reviews all the features included in this release. Since many of the features described in the webinar have been released incrementally over the last 8 weeks, this post will only discuss the [...]

On Saturday, Rally’s Kanban Board will add support for tracking team policies.  This means teams will have an easy shared visual for what it takes for items to be ready to pull, ready to leave any column, and when items are done.  Watch this video to learn more.

Is there someone on your team who can effortlessly create custom dashboard pages? They write filter queries to create custom views of Defects or Portfolio Items, they integrate multiple popular Rally Apps (like a Kanban board) into one dashboard, and even have home-grown charts embedded into custom panels. The end result is an amazingly [...]

It can often be tough to get developers to estimate. Estimation takes time away from writing code, and it can be difficult as well as frustrating to estimate work you may not fully understand.
Agile teams often estimate using a ‘Planning Poker’ approach.   But even a team that’s really good at Planning Poker can generally [...]

The Rally Add-in for Excel provides a quick and easy way to export data from your Rally subscription for tracking, reporting, or sharing. The data can be organized in a pivot table or displayed using Excel’s built-in charting capabilities. Multiple Rally object types can be exported into multiple tabs and the data cross-referenced for more complex needs.

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This past Saturday, August 6th, we released several enhancements to our kanban board that make it even easier to visualize your workflow and track throughput.
Visualization Improvements…
When it comes to the successful implementation of the kanban method, one of the fundamental aspects is being able to quickly assess the status of a project. Cards are one [...]

As a product owner, I’m often stopped in the hall by testers.  ”DE11582,” they’ll exclaim, breathlessly.  ”Is that how you really want it to work, or would you prefer the dropdown to close immediately in IE6?”
“Hang on,” I’ll say.  ”I have no idea which defect you’re talking about.”  For some reason, testers seem to have [...]

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” ~ William Foster
By way of brief introduction, I’m Jim Holland, a new director of Product Marketing. My mission is to champion new and [...]

Our 2011.1 Release will be available to all SaaS Subscription customers this Saturday, February 19th. For those of you who missed it, you can watch a recording of the Rally 2011.1 Release Webinar (held earlier this week) here.
Many of the features have been released incrementally over the last four months, so this post will focus [...]

New Apps Available on January 15th
We continue to expand Rally’s functionality with the addition of several new Apps this weekend. We have seen steady growth in the number of customer-created Apps, likely as a result of Mark Ringer’s App webinar and the expanded help section in the Rally App SDK documentation. If you have created Apps [...]