Rally Office Hours:
November 20, 2025

Summary

Product Announcements

• AI Widget for Release Train Health (Generally Available): If the model is active, this new widget can be added to custom views to summarize a team's performance for a train based on flow metrics and suggest performance improvements.
• Gemini Model Version Update: Rally is updating its Gemini model version to provide better and smarter output for all AI capabilities in Rally, with no changes from the user perspective. This update is scheduled for the following Monday.
• RAM MCP Server for Developers (Beta): A better beta version of RAM MCP server for developers is available to any subscription and is not controlled by the AI module because the LLM is customer-side. The focus is on improving developer work, such as generating code from well-defined user sources in Rally.

Custom Views Updates

• Pinning Custom Views: Users can now pin any custom view to any menu from the view itself. The view is pinned only for the individual user, regardless of whether it is private or shared. If a shared page is pinned, it will only be visible in the menu in projects where the page is shared. This works for personalized navigation.
• Planning Board Widgets (Beta): The Release Planning and Iteration Planning board widgets have been released in beta. The Iteration Planning board allows slotting user stories and defects into iterations, and the Release Planning board allows slotting features or the lowest-level portfolio item into releases. Both boards show estimates versus planned velocity for the time boxes.
• Increased Section Limit: The limit of sections in custom views was recently increased from five to ten.
• Upcoming Webinar: Shamim Ahmed announced a joint webinar with Matt LeMay on December 3rd, discussing how to transform agile teams to be more outcome-centric, based on LeMay's book Impact First Product Teams. The presentation will be followed by a demonstration of how ValueOps Insights can capture and assure outcomes using lead indicators.

Q&A Summary

• Admin Pinning Custom Views: Allowing subscription admins to pin custom views for all users is an anticipated enhancement on the backlog.
• Test Cases and Ancestors: Viewing the number of test cases created per iteration and the feature they belong to is not possible out of the box because it requires looking up the ancestor from the test case view. The feature to show ancestors is being implemented for portfolio items from artifacts (stories and defects), but not yet for test cases, and users were encouraged to submit this as an enhancement request.
• Widget for Retrospectives: A replacement for the old iteration retrospective app, which will be a more flexible widget in custom views, is being worked on. Other options include using a custom field on the iteration object for notes or using the custom URL widget to pull up a shared document.
• Changing Team on a Task: It is not possible to change the team on a task because the team owns the story, and the tasks underneath are the execution of the story by those team members.
• Impersonating a User for OAuth Client Creation (Service Accounts): To prevent an OAuth client from being disabled when the creating user is disabled, the suggested approach is to create a new service account, log in as that account, and create the API key from the Open Access settings.
• Filtering Milestones by Multiple Milestone Types: If milestone type is a custom multi-select field, a query can be written to find milestones where the multi-select field has any value (is not null). Users were advised to use the AI try query assist or contact support.

Event News

• The updated roadmap is available.
• A talk is available on how Rally connects strategy and execution.
• Rally is seeking design partners for insights implementation.
• Free classes are available in the Broadcom Academy learning portal, accessed via the Help button.
• Users can nominate themselves to attend the Rally team's Big Room Planning in February or May.
• Attendees were reminded to join the Rally community and subscribe to the newsletter for announcements and new features.
• Office hours will not be held next week due to Thanksgiving or on Christmas Day.

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