Rally Office Hours:
March 12, 2026

Summary

Product Announcements

• A Rally team member introduced a new course in the software academy titled "Working with Custom Views in Rally," featuring an interactive simulation for building milestone dashboards (09:02).
• Customers can now manage their own training groups within the academy to enroll users and track organizational progress on specific curricula (11:42).
• The Rally team is seeking early adopters to test OAuth authentication for the Rally MCP server using dynamic client registration (13:07).
• This new authentication functionality is designed to be compatible across various MCP clients and integrated development environment (IDE) tools (14:59).

Q&A

• A user asked about feature cycle time details in custom views; a team member confirmed it is a requested feature currently without a scheduled release date (20:17).
• In response to a query about work rules, a Rally team member explained they currently apply to entire workspaces or project hierarchies rather than individual project selection (21:54).
• Regarding the Rally SDK sunset, a team member clarified that while legacy apps will be retired, replacement tools and conversion methods for custom views are being developed (24:45).
• A team member outlined the Rally MCP server roadmap, which includes optimizing tools by persona and implementing "skills" for more efficient workflows (29:31).
• A user inquired about filtering discussions for specific hashtags; a Rally team member suggested using a hardcoded query within a custom view's settings as a workaround (38:42).
• Responding to a question about combining portfolio and timebox data, team members demonstrated using view filter substitutions to display milestone descriptions in related widgets (51:01).

Event News

• A session titled "Evolution of Strategy in the Age of AI" is scheduled for April 29th and will be available on demand (54:34).
• The Rally Q1 roadmap session remains available for users to review upcoming product developments (55:02).
• A recorded session on 2026 global trends and Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) is available via BrightTALK (55:40).
• A Rally team member promoted the Business Agility Workshop, an event where customers can observe the team's actual planning processes (56:28).
• Attendees were encouraged to engage with the Rally community, subscribe to the newsletter, and invite colleagues to future sessions (57:11).

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