Getting Started with Rally Software
Explore how Rally Software helps organizations become more agile as they prepare, plan, manage and track work at all levels of the organization.
LEARNING PATH
Agile Project Portfolio Manager
The Project Portfolio Manager (PPM) role oversees the planning, development, and implementation of project efforts that utilize information technology solutions, principles, standards, and best practices. You must develop, establish, and maintain project management standards and procedures.
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Portfolio Managers
Introduction to Rally Software
Rally Software is a multi-tenant SaaS platform that enables organizations to prepare, plan, manage and track work. With Rally, you can manage work across teams of teams, with real-time visibility, all while staying connected to the company’s most important initiatives, in a single and scalable source of truth.
This introductory course provides you with an overview of different features commonly used in Rally.
Rally Product Tour
How Do I Get Around?
Read here to learn about how Rally can help your agile organization plan and execute at all stages.
Rally Basics for New Users
This introductory course provides you with an overview of different features commonly used in Rally. You'll learn how to navigate within Rally, as well as some of the basic features that will help you work more efficiently.
Get More Out of Rally
Join Rally's Rusty Lloyd as he discusses six features in Rally that can help reduce complexity in your organization.
Bring the Whole Organization Together
Here are some essential best practices for bringing together your company’s IT and business unit teams. Meet regularly, establish expectations, and more to ultimately deliver a better end product to your customers!
Program Increment Planning
Improvisation is crucial to try and continue business as usual and serve your valued customers if business-related travel is restricted. Learn how you can use Rally’s “out of the box” features to facilitate a collaborative, effective, and remote-friendly PI Planning ceremony.
Develop and Organize Feature Backlogs
You can use Rally to create and maintain a healthy program backlog, especially in the first few weeks after a typical big room planning event.
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Keeping a Healthy Program Backlog in Rally (Part 1)
See what happens in the first few weeks after a big-room planning event, and how to create a healthy program backlog.
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Keeping a Healthy Program Backlog in Rally (Part 2)
In part two of the “Keeping a Healthy Program Backlog” series, our presenters will pick up where they left off, sharing what happens beginning in the fifth week after a Big Room Planning event. Now that you’ve created your Program backlog of Features and made some rough capacity allocations, you’ll learn how to refine, estimate and prioritize Features and prepare them for User Story breakdown, draft planning and preparation for the next event!
Responsibility-Based Planning and Control Versus Task Schedules
Manage product development with something better than task schedules: the responsibility-based planning and control method. This approach to managing both workflow execution and actual work can be quite successful due in no small part to the key functionality of the Rally platform.
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Responsibility-Based Planning and Control Versus Task Schedules (Part 1)
In part one of this two-part blog, we discuss why task schedules are no longer the most effective way to product development in the modern work environment.
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Responsibility-Based Planning and Control Versus Task Schedules (Part 2)
In the second part of this two-part blog, we look at the benefits teams can realize by adopting responsibility-based planning and control practices.