Rally

Rally is a tool designed to help teams have useful agile meetings even when team members are working remotely. It's tightly integrated with Jira, letting you import issues from your backlog to generate agendas for refinement meetings. And it synchronizes meeting notes, discussions and estimates with your Jira projects.

Rally's purpose is to make agile meetings easier in a variety of ways:

• Meeting Assistant: It records notes and offers data-driven insights to help teams meet their sprint goals.
• Discussion Suggestions: It analyzes the imported issues and suggests new ideas for discussion, along with role-based questions to help team members contribute more meaningfully.
• Generate Highlights: It summarizes the key takeaways from each issue's discussion and estimation, and updates your Jira backlog accordingly.

Rally is geared for distributed or hybrid teams that want flexibility in their meetings. It can handle both asynchronous and synchronous refinement meetings, so teams can work together regardless of where they are.

Among other features in Rally:

• Timebox: It lets teams set timers for specific activities in meetings, like brainstorming and voting.
• Productive Team Discussions: It helps teams have focused discussions and reach conclusions on each item on their agenda.
• Story Point Estimations: It makes estimation easier with anonymous voting and consensus-based final estimates.

Rally is designed to help teams collaborate and manage projects better by cutting out distractions and inefficiencies that can plague meetings. By automatically documenting meeting highlights and integrating with Jira, Rally helps teams get better results faster.

Rally pricing is through Windu, and it starts at $4 per month for the Basic package and $6 per month for the Pro package. The Pro plan adds features like 30 days of historical data and team management.

Published on July 10, 2024