Independent Analyst Report States That, 'Rally Offers the Best Combination of Capability and Strategy' Among Agile ALM Tools

BOULDER, Colo., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report that evaluates 10 vendors in the Agile ALM space states that Rally® is "the best combination of capability and strategy." The report, "The Forrester Wave: Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010," assesses 10 Agile development tool vendors and the current state of the Agile development management tools market.

"We are incredibly honored to receive Forrester's highest overall score for Agile ALM tools," said Ryan Martens, founder and CTO of Rally Software. "As more organizations adopt Agile and at a much larger scale than ever before, Rally delivers an enterprise-scale product backed by a world-class coaching organization that has transformed thousands of teams to Agile."

"In our evaluation, Rally provides Agile project teams the strongest combination of current offering and product strategy," states the report. "Coming from an Agile product management background, Rally continues to add functionality to extend the reach of its development management environment." "The Forrester Wave^™: Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010," Forrester Research, Inc., May, 2010

A Whole Solution for Agile ALM

Each vendor was evaluated against 152 total criteria – 117 criteria focused on core and advanced functionality, 20 strategy-related criteria and 15 market-presence related criteria. The report states that Rally, "offers the best current balance of product capability and strategic outlook."(1)

Rally was also praised for its deep expertise in enterprise Agile transformations. The report states, "Rally continues to develop strong thought leadership around the practice of software delivery, and it has a strong services group with lots of experience around enterprise Agile adoption, benchmarking, and assessments."(1)

Mainstream Agile Adoption

According to the report, Agile adoption has reached the mainstream, with 35% of organizations surveyed reporting their primary development method as Agile. In another survey, 39% of Agile organizations considered their implementation mature.(1)

The report states, "This increased level of adoption has serious implications for development organizations' tool use, changing not only the process model being followed but also the very nature of work undertaken and who is involved in that work."(1)

To read the entire report, visit http://www.rallydev.com/downloads/download/206.html

About Rally

Rally is the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) dedicated to making distributed development organizations faster and leaner by dramatically cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages. Rally's products were honored with four consecutive Jolt awards (the software industry's equivalent of the Oscar® award) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The company's end-to-end solutions for Agile development also include Agile University, the leading source for Agile training, and Agile Commons, the largest collaborative Web 2.0 community dedicated to advancing software agility. Rally currently supports more than 2,100 corporate customers, 58,000 projects and 96,000 users in 60 countries. For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

(1) "The Forrester Wave^™: Agile Development Management Tools, Q2 2010," Forrester Research, Inc., May, 2010

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