Rally Apps

The Estimation Board app has the following features: Drag & drop controls to quickly change the plan estimate of a story or defect Filter cards by type Direct links to stories and defects Custom settings for plan estimate sizes

The Kanban Board supports the following actions: Drag-and-drop a story or defect to another column to move work across the board Drag-and-drop re-ranking View the details of the story or defect Optionally show task information (x of n tasks completed) for a story or defect Optionally show defect information (x of n defects closed) for a story Optionally show long a story or defect has been in a Kanban column (x days in this column) Edit the story or defect Mark a story or defect ready to be pulled Block a story or defect Create a new story List exit policies above each column Show Cycle Time and Throughput reports to track how the team is doing Filter the board by a tag; work items not assigned to the specific tag are faded View the detailed help for more information and best practices on using the Kanban Board.

The Portfolio Kanban Board app helps you track the status of your portfolio items as they move along in your portfolio process.

The Print Task Cards app will generate a set of printable cards for a given iteration. Each card contains the following data: Task ID & story ID Task owner & profile picture Task name Task description Task estimate Note: When printing, force your printer into landscape mode to print 4 cards per 8.5in x 11in (letter) page.

The Story Board app provides your team a view of the stories, defects and defect suites within your iteration organized by schedule state, as if you were looking at a whiteboard. Features of the Story Board app include: Displays user stories, defects, and defect suites in the iteration Create and add new user stories to the board Drag-and-drop a card between columns to quickly change the state of a story Drag-and-drop a story within the same column to change rank Direct links to stories and defects Edit work items without leaving the board Print functionality Note: If you have manual ranking enabled, you will not be able to use drag and drop re-ranking within a state.

The Task Board app provides you with a way to view and update tasks during your daily standup meeting. Features include: View tasks in rows next to their associated user stories Use drag & drop controls to quickly change the state of a task Edit the Estimate, To Do, Owner, and State fields without leaving the board Delete tasks View blocked tasks Filter content by owner, accepted state, and iteration You can see an overview video of the Task Board here. Note: The overview video shows current functionality of the Task Board app, but was recorded in a previous version of the Rally interface. For updated instructions on how to install the app, see Create a Custom Page.

The Custom Grid app allows you to create a grid that shows the data you want. Using Rally's Web Services API, you can create custom queries on specific work item fields, and then sort and filter the results.

The Custom HTML app allows you to create an app using your own custom HTML and Javascript code. You may query and use data from Rally's web services interface.

The Custom URL app displays content from the URL your specify. For example, if you specify "http://www.rallydev.com", the Rally website will appear within the app.

If you have integrated Rally with a build system such as Jenkins or Anthill Pro, the Build Dashboard app provides a report of build success and build statistics, which can be filtered by 30 day, 90 day, or release-based time periods. Data displayed is applicable to the project(s) you have in scope.

The Build Health app allows you to view proportions of build success to failure along with build duration for the past 30 days.

The Build Health by Iteration app allows you to view proportions of build success to failure along with build duration for the past 10 iterations.

The Build Traceability app provides a view of Rally work items (user stories, defects, and tasks) that have been assigned to a particular build. The workflow for this app begins with a developer including information on the Rally work item Formatted ID field (in a commit message), to create an association between the changeset and work item. The changeset object is created by the Rally Source Code Management connectors. The commit then triggers a Jenkins continuous build. Once the Jenkins continuous build completes, a post-build step using the Rally Connector for Jenkins will create a build object in Rally that is associated with the changeset.

The Source Code Check-In app displays a list of recent check-ins from Rally source code connectors Rally offers source code connectors for Subversion, Perforce, Git, and Microsoft TFS. Generally, each of these connectors creates a relationship between a Rally work item and a source code check-in (or changeset) and creates a list of affected files (or changes). The connectors also allow for updating the state of Rally work items from the check-in comments.

The Getting Started for Contributors app provides guidance for developers, testers, tech writers, and other individual contributors to help them manage their work.

The Getting Started for Executives app provides guidance for program managers, portfolio managers, directors, and executives to help them understand what is happening across multiple initiatives or teams.

The Getting Started for Organizers app provides guidance for project managers, product owners, or scrum masters to help them plan and track work for a team.

The Upgrade to Enterprise Edition app shows you the benefits of upgrading to the Enterprise Edition of Rally.

The Blocked Work app allows you to add a panel showing what is currently blocked in your workspace and who blocked it.

The Enhanced Velocity Chart app allows you to see velocity by iteration as well as: The amount of work accepted after the iteration ends The amount of work yet to be accepted A velocity trend line

The Incomplete Stories for Current Iteration app displays user stories that have not been completed or accepted in the current iteration. Summary information on associated tasks, defects, and test cases is also included.

The Iteration Burndown app displays work remaining and completed in the iteration, to proactively anticipate whether the committed work will be delivered by the iteration end date.

The Iteration Burnup app displays work delivered so far in the iteration to proactively anticipate whether the iteration scope will be delivered.

The Iteration Cumulative Flow app allows you to view the states of work in the iteration to analyze the trend in lead time for delivery of working code.

The Iteration Dashboard app displays iteration data in several formats, including pie charts, a general health summary, and an advanced burndown chart. You may view the progress in the iteration broken down by work item type and state. Features include: Pie charts displaying the state of user stories, defects, defect suites, and test cases An iteration health summary, which calculates the rate of work acceptance to provide general guidance on the iteration An advanced burndown chart with color-coding of work by state

The Iteration Defects by Priority app displays defects in the iteration that do not have a state of Closed, categorized by priority. This app can assist you with assessing the end of iteration technical debt.

The Iteration Defects by State app displays all defects in the iteration, categorized by state. This app can assist you with assessing the end of iteration technical debt.

The Iteration Scope Change app displays all work items (user stories, defects, and defect suites) that have been added or removed from an iteration, giving a succinct view of whether scope is changing during the course of an iteration.

The Iteration Summary app helps you understand how an iteration is going, with text-based guidance. Based on the status of work, defects, and test cases, you'll see shows colored indicators that help your team address problems as they happen.

The Iteration Traceability app displays basic information and relationships between the user stories in the iteration and their associated defects, tasks, and test cases.

The Personal Burndown Chart app can be used to gain visibility into your personal task progress relative to the time remaining in the iteration. You can immediately see when your are starting to lag behind so that you can make adjustments to your time management or seek help as early as possible. Early escalation gives the team the best chance to recover. Caution! Personal burndown charts are somewhat controversial. Some people have very strong opinions against such reports. You are cautioned against using this information, as with most Rally and Agile practices, to measure or rate the performance of an individual. Features include: View assigned task hours over time View an ideal burndown line based on work assigned to you in the iteration Hover over a bar or line to see detailed figures for the date Select past and future iterations using the Iteration drop-down menu Note: This chart works best for teams that assign many or all of the tasks at the start of the iteration and update the to do values for their tasks daily By default, the ideal burndown trend line assumes that no work is being done on the weekends. This can be changed to a straight line by setting the WORK_WEEKENDS variable to true. To do this, you will need to cut and paste the app source code into a new Custom HTML app

The Ready to Accept app displays work in the current iteration that is ready to accept. A state of Completed signals that the work is ready for acceptance.

The Recently Changed App displays tasks, stories, and defects that were modified as of the last work date. This app displays the most recent 200 items in each area: tasks, user stories, and defects.

The Super Customizable Iteration Chart provides you with the ability to slice and dice iteration burndown data into many types of views. Customization options include: stacked bar, grouped bar, line, or area display, story or task units, selectable colors, ideal lines, trend lines and any combination of schedule states.

The Unassigned Tasks for Current Iteration app displays tasks with no owner in the current iteration. This app is helpful for product owners, scrum masters, and other organizers who want to ensure that all tasks in the iteration are assigned after planning.

The Completed Stories and Defects per Iteration app displays all stories and defects which are completed by development (in rank order) and ready for review by the product owner. Stories and defects display in separate tables. Note: This app was rewritten to take advantage of the Rally App SDK, specifically the RallyDataSource, IterationDropdown and Table components. The performance on workspace/projects with large numbers of artifacts (stories, tasks, defects, test cases) should be noticeably improved.

The My Availability app allows you to see if you are underutilized, overloaded, or well-balanced for the current Iteration. This panel is particularly useful for contributors who work on multiple projects simultaneously.

The My Defects app displays non-closed defects that you own. This is useful for testers, developers, and other contributors who need to keep track of assigned defect work.

The My Notifications app allows you to keep track of events in a project or set of projects. To configure the notifications you see, read Set Up Your Notifications in Rally's help.

The My Tasks app displays tasks in the current iteration that you own. This is useful for developers, testers, and other contributors who want to quickly view and link to their assigned tasks each day.

The My Test Cases app allows you to view test cases for which you are the owner.

The Open Stories, Defects, and Tasks app displays all open user stories, tasks, defects and test cases in an iteration, where you are the owner. Note: The schedule states for user stories and defects and the states for tasks are hard coded. If your Rallly admin has made changes to these dropdown values, you will need to update the code to represent this. This app was rewritten to take advantage of the Rally App SDK, specifically the RallyDataSource, IterationDropdown and Table components. The performance on workspace/projects with large numbers of artifacts (stories, tasks, defects, test cases) should be noticeably improved.

The Cycle/Lead Time app allows you to view the average number of days it takes work to flow through your process. You can measure the time it takes for work to pass through Rally schedule states to acceptance.

The Dependency Status Dashboard app shows dependencies between user stories for a series of upcoming iterations. This assists groups with forecasting potential blockers or stoppages in the next iteration. Product owners will be able to see what teams they need to talk to about their dependencies. Dependencies are based on predecessor and successor settings among user stories. Warnings will appear in the app when: A dependency is not yet scheduled. A dependency is scheduled too late to start work on the original story. A dependency is marked as blocked. Known limitations: Only immediate story predecessors are listed in the app.

The Enhanced Velocity Chart app allows you to see velocity by iteration as well as: The amount of work accepted after the iteration ends The amount of work yet to be accepted A velocity trend line

The Planned vs. Actual Burndown app captures a release’s burndown progress. It gives you a chart overview with a table to view the data. Use this app to help you determine if: The release is progressing as expected The work is logically divided between the iterations There should be a reallocation of the user stories to other iterations

The Productivity Chart displays a rate of productivity for a team during the last 15 iterations. This chart can be used with velocity metrics to estimate future iteration capacity during planning. Note: Due to differences in estimation strategies and point scales from one scrum team to the next, the productivity rate should not be used to compare the productivity of multiple teams. It can and should only be used to measure changes in productivity for individual teams.

The Release Scope Change app displays all work (user stories, defects, and defect suites) that have been added or removed from a release, giving a succinct view of whether scope is changing during the course of a release.

The Stories by Creator app provides brief information about the stories in a release, ordered by the story creator. After selecting a release from the drop-down menu, information about each story in the release is assembled for display in a tabular format.

The Story Map app shows all of the high level themes your users need to do, broken down into the smaller stories a user would do as part of each theme. New themes can be added, child stories can be added, stories can be re-ranked, and re-parented. See this blog post on Story Maps by Jeff Patton for more information.

The Throughput app displays a count of work items accepted in a given interval such as weeks, months, quarters.

The Utilization Chart app shows the task estimate total for the iteration divided by the sum of the capacity estimate for all team members with a capacity estimate. It displays trends over the latest 15 iterations (including the estimate for the current iteration in progress). Note: Iterations are retrieved only for the currently selected project; child projects are not included.

The Velocity Chart app displays trends in value delivery, including work accepted after the iteration and completed work not yet accepted.

The Weekly Actuals Report app searches through the revisions of tasks, to see when the Actuals field was updated. As of the 2009.5 release (December 2009), the Rally Time Tracker module provides a superior solution to the task Actuals field for recording daily hours for the purpose of reporting on development cost, billing or capitalization. The Actuals field remains valuable to certain customers who only need cursory tracking of development hours not requiring quarterly, weekly, or monthly accounting reports. If you were using the Actuals field for accounting purposes, Rally's recommendation is to adopt Rally Time Tracker.

The Agile EVM app is an adaptation of the traditional project management practice of measuring actual value of integrated cost, schedule and scope against a baseline plan using Earned Value Management (EVM) metrics. The methods of measurement have been adapted to easily fit within the scrum project management framework. For more information on Agile EVM, consult these articles: AgileEVM: Measuring Cost Efficiency Across the Product Lifecycle, Tamara Sulaiman, Oct 2007 Estimating and Tracking Agile Projects, Bachir Kane, May 2007 To provide valuable results, your agile team should do the following: The project should have at least one release Developers must consistently populate the Actuals field on all their tasks All stories in the release should have their Plan Estimate field populated during release planning The app assumes the following default values: Blended hourly rate for an employee. Default = $50/hour. Ratio between story points and task hours. Default = 5. Variance for Green, Yellow, and Red indicators. Default = 5. Variance of 5: >95% green, 85% to 94% yellow, < 84% red. Variance of 10: >90% green, 80% to 89% yellow, < 79% red. Change default values To change the default values above, copy the app code to a Custom HTML app and edit the following variables in the Global Variables section: _billableRate: blended hourly rate for an employee. _multiplier: Ratio between story points and task hours. Ex: If a story point is equivalent to five ideal developer hours , the multiplier is 5. _baseVar : variance for Green, Yellow, and Red indicators. Options are 5 or 10.

The Portfolio Timeline app allows you to visualize how portfolio items are progressing over varying time intervals. Rally Portfolio Manager is required to access the app.

The Program Dashboard shows a high-level, graphical view of each release in a program along with a rollup view of the scheduled work, test cases, defects, and a burndown chart for the entire program.

The Super Customizable Program Chart app allows you to slice and dice program burndown data into many types of views. Customization options include: stacked bar, grouped bar, line, or area display, story or task units, selectable colors, ideal lines, trend lines and any combination of schedule states. Programs are made up of one or more releases. The Super Customizable Program Chart takes all of these releases and combines their chart data into one view.

The Active Defect Charts app helps you visualize the currently active (not closed) defects using two pie charts. This app abides by the project scoping control and deals with customer modifications of the Severity and Priority fields.

The Defect Summary Matrix app displays a breakdown of defects in a release by the State and Priority fields. Clicking on an individual State or Priority provides a list of defects in that category.

The Defect Trend app allows you to view cumulative defects opened versus closed over time, showing whether the trend is increasing or decreasing.

The Defects by Closer app displays all defects within a selected release, along with details about when they were closed, the time closure occurred, and who performed the close action.

The Defects by Package app provides a basic report of all defects in your project, grouped by the Package field.

The Defects by Priority app displays defects categorized by priority over time.

The Defects by State app displays defects categorized by state over time.

The Last Result by Test Set app shows the last test case result for each test case associated with a test set for a selected iteration. In Rally, a test set is a means of grouping and scheduling test cases. When each test case is run, a test case result is generated with a verdict for the test case. This app shows the very latest test case result for each test case in a test set. The output is ordered by test set FormattedID, with the associated test cases also ordered by FormattedID. Note: If your test case is not associated with a test set, this app will not show any results for that test case. Additionally, if a test case result for a test case is not associated with a test set, the data for that test case result will not be shown.

The Open Defect Age app tracks the mean age of open defects in your project. The mean age of open defects is a measure of how much time currently open defects stay unresolved. In most cases it makes sense to reduce mean age as this indicates that you don't have too many outstanding defects and users of your software don't have to wait too long for fixes. To give the full picture of the maintenance situation, mean age of open defects should be interpreted together with a mean time to fix metric (how much time in average it takes you to fix a defect).

Rally's approach is to create a task under the user story for testing tasks and associate the test cases to the user stories. But, what if you wanted to track the team's effectiveness at estimating the amount of effort by test case, you can use this app. As you enter the data on test cases, the app will roll the results up. You need to setup three custom decimal fields in the workspace where you will be using the app: Test Case Estimate, Test Case ToDo, and Test Case Actual. This app has been rewritten to use the batchToolkit. The use of the batchToolkit means that only one request for a query (or queries) is issued; no longer is there a query request issued per test case. So, for workspaces/projects with a large amount of test cases, this app should render noticeably faster. The totals have been repositioned to the end of the report. The chart has a scale on it and you can hover the cursor over the quantity bar of interest to obtain the specific count for that bar.

The Test Case Pass/Fail History app provides a means of displaying test cases associated with a workspace along with the test case results. Using this app, you can easily observe the state of each test case and the tester for each test case result. The test case, the associated story, and each test case result item has a hyperlink to the detail page of the work item, enabling easy access to supplementary information. Note: Only test cases with test case results that have been generated in the last 30 days are shown Project scoping settings in the Edit Settings menu are ignored; all test cases in the workspace are displayed

The Cross Workspace Release Status app is a management view of work across workspaces that share the same release schedule. A shared release schedule is determined by a release with the same name, start and end date. If a release with the same name and different dates exists, the release drop-down will show the unique dates. Otherwise, the release drop-down will only display the release name. Releases across all workspaces that a user has permission to view are populated in the Release drop-down. The user can then select a given release to see a tabular view of scheduled stories, defects, and defect suites for a particular release. The tabular view includes the formatted ID, workspace name, project name, schedule state, plan estimate, task estimate and to do for the given artifact.

The Dependency Status Dashboard #2 app shows dependencies between user stories for a series of upcoming iterations. This assists groups with forecasting potential blockers or stoppages in the next iteration. Product owners will be able to see what teams they need to talk to about their dependencies.

The Enhanced Burndown Chart app exposes the health of an Agile release that is sometimes masked with a typical burndown. The chart captures the original planned work left to do above the baseline and tracks changes in scope (work added) below the baseline. Knowing both metrics helps a team predict a release completion date by computing two trend lines based on the committed work and work added (see figure below). The intersection of both trends lines provides an expected release date based on current release velocity. Current release velocity means that the team continues to accept work at the same rate.

The Epic Progress app provides a status view of user stories associated with an epic story for a selected release. The resulting view is in a tabular format with the epic stories associated with the selected release shown as row labels. The iterations in the release are shown as vertical swim lanes in which story "cards" are populated according to the iteration they are scheduled in. Each user story "card" has several visual elements. The top of each card is colored according to the current status of the user story (there is a legend the provides the color/status detail), the story estimate appears at the right hand side of the card, and the bottom of the user story card shows a percentage task complete progress bar. Hovering the the mouse over a user story results in a tooltip that shows the name of the user story.

This app displays four pie charts for an entire project. Story status Task status Test Case status Defect status Note: The display is for all of these artifacts in the project - not for a specific release or iteration.

The Release Burnup app displays work delivered so far in the release to proactively anticipate whether the release scope will be delivered.

The Release Cumulative Flow app displays work-in-progress status to visually analyze the trend in lead time for release value delivery.

The Release Dashboard app displays iteration data in several formats, including pie charts, a general health summary, and an advanced burndown chart. You may view the progress in the release broken down by work item type and state. Features include: Pie charts displaying the state of user stories, defects, defect suites, and test cases A release health summary, which calculates the rate of work acceptance to provide general guidance on the release An advanced burndown chart with color-coding of work by state

The Release Defect Trend app allows you to view cumulative defects opened versus closed over the course of a release, showing whether the trend is increasing or decreasing. The chart visually shows the rate at which defects are being activated (red line), the rate at which defects are being terminated (green line) and the trend for the total number of active defects (black line).

The Release Dependencies app displays a table of stories scheduled for the selected release that either has a predecessor or a successor. For each story's relationship to a predecessor or successor, a row is displayed. For example, if there was a story for the selected release that has 3 predecessors and 2 successors, this would result in 3 rows displayed. There are three sections to the table: predecessors, stories, and successors.

The Release Summary app provides a concise view of all user stories and defects accepted in a given release. Links are included for quick access to the detail pages of the included release, stories and defects. The app content can be copied and pasted into an email or wiki to quickly create a release summary message.

The Release Traceability app displays basic information and relationships between user stories and their related tasks, test cases and defects for a given release.

The Super Customizable Release Chart app provides you with the ability to slice and dice release burndown data into many types of views. Customization options include: stacked bar, grouped bar, line, or area display, story or task units, selectable colors, ideal lines, trend lines and any combination of schedule states.

The Blocking History app provides you with a listing of when user stories and tasks were blocked and unblocked in an iteration, and who performed the action. Note: This app takes advantage of the Rally App SDK, which addresses some performance issues. In particular, the use of the IterationDropdown component cleans up the visuals tremendously, and the query time for projects with a large number of iterations has been greatly reduced.

The System Requirement Validation Document app allows the user to choose a story tagged with 'SRS' (System Requirement Story) and display/print its children stories and related test case information. When it is printed, a signature line and printed date are appended to the bottom of the document. Note: This app should be considered as a starting point to meet your organization's unique requirements. You may need to modify the app code further to implement specific features that best help your team. For more information on customizing apps, contact your account representative, see our developer portal, or open a new support case.

The Traceability Matrix App allows the user to choose a story tagged with 'PRD' (Product Requirement Document) and display/print its children stories and related test case information. When it is printed, a signature line and printed date are appended to the bottom of the document. This document prints best from Firefox or Internet Explorer 8+ browsers with landscape orientation selected. Note: This app should be considered as a starting point to meet your organization's unique requirements. You may need to modify the app code further to implement specific features that best help your team. For more information on customizing apps, contact your account representative, see our developer portal, or open a new support case.

The Print Story Cards app will generate a set of printable cards for a given iteration. Each card contains the following data: Story ID Story owner & profile picture Story name Story description Story estimate Note: When printing, force your printer into landscape mode to print 4 cards per 8.5in x 11in (letter) page.

The Recent Activity app displays the recent comments in your workspace and who commented.

The Story Deep Copy app is designed to help you make copies of a story that include copied versions of all of that stories children and their tasks. One of the uses for this app is to help using templates for epic stories. Some teams have similar structures for each of their features. These teams can make a template for complicated stories and reuse them again and again. More detailed documentation can be found on the app's help page.

The User Lookup app provides easy access to user details. You can view all users, filter by a specific letter, or enter a search string filter. Additionally, you can edit a user by clicking the edit icon to open the user editor. Note: The functionality of this app has led to enhanced user administration in Rally. Before installing this app, we recommend you review the Users pages in Rally (Setup > Users page, or Setup > Workspaces & Projects > Project detail page > Users page). If this app provides unique functionality you would like to see in Rally, please let us know by contacting our support team. This app requires subscription or workspace permissions to view or edit users.