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All Agile Processes Large and Small
Rally adds roles for enterprise offering; creates version for teams
By David Rubinstein

February 15, 2006 — What Toyota did for cars and Dell did for computers is what Rally Software hopes to do for application development, with the Feb. 13 release of Rally Agile Team and Rally Agile Pro software life-cycle management solutions for agile development.

“It’s about providing lean practices in ways [development teams] understand,” said Richard Leavitt, vice president of software development at Rally.

Agile processes are noted for their iterative nature, with software delivered incrementally. The new editions are designed to help organizations—regardless of size—take advantage of these processes.

Agile Pro, the next iteration of the company’s life-cycle management software, adds support for requirements analysts, program managers and system architects, Leavitt explained. “I’ll tell you why we started over,” he said. “Until you mate program management and planning, task blowout and tracking, it’s difficult to roll anything up or communicate readiness or the status of any individual piece.”

Enhancements to Rally include new story requirement types, the ability to customize fields and views for requirements, test cases and defects, a Web services API for SOAP and REST that supports Rally’s numerous tools integrations, and the use of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technology for inline editing of requirements, test cases and defects.

Agile Team was created for small-budget development and test teams and their direct managers—accommodating up to 10 people on a project, Leavitt said.

The company’s strategy for future editions includes portfolio management for use in larger enterprises, and simpler components that can integrate into IDEs, build environments or automated test platforms and flow data back into Rally’s platform, Leavitt said.

Offered as hosted solutions, Agile Pro costs US$65 per user per month, and Agile Team costs $995 for five users for six months.

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