Rally Office Hours:
January 29, 2026

Summary

Product Announcement: Deep Copy Feature

• A team member announced the release of a deep copy feature in the core Rally product.

• Users find this functionality on the detail page for any portfolio item or user story.

• Users can access the deep copy feature through the kebab menu.

• The feature copies the source item, all children portfolio items (if at a higher level), user stories directly parented to a portfolio item, and tasks.

• It also copies predecessors, successors, tags, and milestones.

• The feature does not copy states (states reset when copied), discussions, or defects.

• The presenter mentioned the feature released less than a week ago and has already received positive feedback from a customer.

Q&A

• A team member provided a follow-up to a previous question regarding the slipped artifacts widget.

  • A customer was not seeing their finished sprint show up in the chart for a couple of days.

  • The presenter clarified that the sprint should show up right away once it has ended.

  • A finished sprint might not appear if a gap exists between the sprint's end and the next iteration's start, causing the system to think the last iteration is still the current one.

  • The presenter encouraged logging a support ticket if a finished sprint does not show up in the chart.

  • A participant confirmed the previous week's question about the delay in seeing a finished sprint.

• A participant asked about converting a custom page view that uses HTML code to a custom view.

  • The original custom page allowed selecting the dependency type (feature or user story) in the Edit App Settings.

  • This option was unavailable in the custom view, which only showed user story to user story dependencies.

  • A Rally team member thought the app was built on the App SDK, which custom views do not technically support, potentially explaining the difference in available settings.

  • A team member advised that the tech documentation offers recommendations for transitioning from SDK app-based custom pages to custom views.

• A participant inquired about visualizing feature cycle time.

  • A Rally team member showed that this is available on the Portfolio Kanban board by going to the charts option and selecting the separate cycle time chart.

  • The participant asked about pulling this functionality into a dashboard view.

  • A team member responded that they are looking into it, specifically leveraging the Rally Insights product. He asked for use cases for feature/portfolio level visual dashboards to help with product development.

• Another participant from United Healthcare discussed using the Rally Insights product.

  • The available graphs are based only on months or quarters, making them not correlate well with the participant's 10-week PI cycles.

  • The participant requested the ability to show insights by PI.

  • The team members encouraged submitting a feature request for this ability.

  • A Rally team member clarified they were referencing the separate ValueOps Insights product for the dashboard discussion, not the Rally Insights feature.

Event News

• A webinar, "Will AI Replace the PMO?" on February 12th.

• The Q1 road map update on February 18th.

• An on-demand webinar, "From KS to Control Value Stream Governance Through Intelligent Automation," is available.

• The Rally team invites attendees to attend their quarterly PI planning as a guest in Broomfield, Colorado. The next opportunity to attend is May 4th through May 7th.

• The Rally team is looking for design partners for the ValueOps Insights product.

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