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Considering Replacing Jira Align?
Rally Offers More Capability at Lower Cost
Streamline your portfolio agility, reduce overhead, and keep Jira for team-level work.
Is Jira Align Holding You Back?
Many organizations adopt Jira Align hoping for better visibility and alignment, only to run into roadblocks. The tool is complex, expensive, and often requires significant overhead just to maintain. Teams struggle to adopt it, executives find it hard to get clear insights, and the overall experience can feel more like managing a tool than managing Agile work.
There’s a Better Way.
Rally offers a simpler, more focused path to scaled agility. It integrates easily with Jira at the team level, while providing powerful portfolio-level planning, tracking, and reporting. With over 20 years of Rally expertise, ICON Agility Services can guide your transition with minimal disruption and maximum value. We help you streamline your tooling, improve team experience, and deliver outcomes—not just outputs.
Is Jira Align Holding You Back?
Many organizations adopt Jira Align hoping for better visibility and alignment, only to run into roadblocks. The tool is complex, expensive, and often requires significant overhead just to maintain. Teams struggle to adopt it, executives find it hard to get clear insights, and the overall experience can feel more like managing a tool than managing Agile work.
There’s a Better Way.
Rally offers a simpler, more focused path to scaled agility. It integrates easily with Jira at the team level, while providing powerful portfolio-level planning, tracking, and reporting. With over 20 years of Rally expertise, ICON Agility Services can guide your transition with minimal disruption and maximum value. We help you streamline your tooling, improve team experience, and deliver outcomes—not just outputs.
What Are the Benefits of Switching to Rally
Switching to Rally gives you a smarter, more agile solution for managing work across the enterprise. You can keep Jira for team-level execution while Rally provides a powerful engine for portfolio planning, lean budgeting, and cross-team alignment. The total cost of ownership is lower, configuration is easier, and the system is built from the ground up for Agile practices like SAFe, Scrum, and Lean Portfolio Management. With a faster rollout and better adoption, Rally helps you focus on delivering value instead of wrestling with your tools.
What Is ValueOps?
Broadcom's ValueOps brings together Rally®, Clarity®, and ValueOps ConnectALL® to form a unified solution for managing strategy, funding, and execution in Agile and hybrid environments.
Thank you for attending our webinar on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and SAFe®. We appreciate your time and hope the session provided you with actionable insights to guide your organization’s transformation journey.
If you're ready to take the next step in applying AI within your enterprise or scaling your SAFe implementation with AI in mind, we offer several hands-on options to help you move forward:.
- AI-Powered Efficiency Assessment
Establish a clear baseline of where your organization stands today. This assessment helps identify opportunities, gaps, and readiness levels to integrate AI more effectively into your current workflows.
Learn more and schedule your assessment - AI Use Case & Roadmap Development
Translate high-level ideas into practical use cases and a tailored implementation roadmap. This workshop helps align stakeholders and prioritize initiatives that deliver measurable business value.
Explore the Use Case Feasibility and Roadmap Workshop - AI Workforce Upskilling
Build confidence and capability across your teams with role-specific training.- Prompt Engineering by Role: Equip your teams with the skills to effectively engage with AI tools in their specific contexts.
View the course - AI Ethics & Responsible Use: Ensure your teams understand the governance, risks, and ethical considerations that come with implementing AI responsibly.
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- Prompt Engineering by Role: Equip your teams with the skills to effectively engage with AI tools in their specific contexts.
To see the full range of our AI-focused workshops and courses, visit our training hub:
Rally®
Rally is an enterprise wide tool and connects strategy to execution (enterprise > portfolio > team of teams (ART) > teams). AI is built in to enhance productivity.
Best for: Teams, teams of teams (ARTs), and portfolios to track priorities and progress across the entire organization (including lean portfolio management, OKRs and metrics)
Clarity®
Clarity is an enterprise tool that is best for strategic planning, resource planning, financial planning, and investment tracking.
Best for: Finance, Portfolio, and Strategy Planning.
ValueOps ConnectALL®
ConnectAll connects the entire tooling ecosystem (including delivery pipeline) together, from ideation to release and operations.
Best for: Providing metrics across the value stream including devops metrics plus more.
We are not getting the most value out of our Agile Tooling
- Our tooling implementation is too complex
- We have too many costly add-ons
- We struggle to aggregate data across teams, teams of teams, and portfolios
Rally has these capabilities out of the box without costly add-ons. Contact us to learn more.
We want to connect all of our tooling in a single view
- We have Agile Tooling but it stands alone
- We want an end-to-end view across all tools from ideation to release and more
- We struggle to see the full Value Stream
ValueOps combines Clarity, Rally and ConnectAll for true Value Stream Management. Add Insights for full data. Contact us to learn more.
We have agile tooling, but our transformation is struggling
- Our agile journey has hit roadblocks
- Our change agents are new or we do not have enough to support our needs
- We lack expertise and real experience
ICON has years of proven field experience leading global transformations. Let us help.
We are not sure how to get started with improvements
- We have pockets of Agile Teams
- Our tooling has evolved over time but does not fully support ways of working
- Our transformation is overly complex
Tooling should support Agile ways of working. Let ICON help with Agile and Tooling assessments today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can we keep Jira for team-level work?
Yes. In fact, most of our clients do. Rally is designed to operate at the program, portfolio, and enterprise levels while allowing teams to continue using Jira for their day-to-day tasks. We help you set up seamless integration between Rally and Jira so you get the best of both worlds: team autonomy with Jira and strategic alignment through Rally. There's no need to disrupt what works.
How long does the transition take?
The transition timeline depends on the size and complexity of your organization, but most clients complete their migration in four to six weeks. We start with a tailored roadmap based on your current setup, then move through data migration, system configuration, and onboarding in a structured, phased approach. Our experienced team ensures minimal disruption and smooth handoffs every step of the way, with coaching to support adoption throughout the rollout.
What makes Rally better than Jira Align?
Rally was purpose-built for Agile and Lean Portfolio Management. It’s more intuitive to use, faster to configure, and significantly less expensive to maintain. Unlike Jira Align, which often requires custom work and additional overhead to function effectively, Rally provides out-of-the-box capabilities for strategic planning, dependency tracking, and value delivery. Our clients find Rally easier for teams to adopt, more insightful for leadership, and far more flexible across the enterprise.
Do you provide training and coaching as part of the transition?
Yes. Training and coaching are a core part of every transition we lead. Our approach includes tailored enablement for both business leaders and Agile teams, ensuring everyone understands how to use Rally effectively in their role. We offer live workshops, on-demand resources, and one-on-one coaching as needed. Our goal is not just to move you into a new tool, but to help you get meaningful results from it quickly.
What kind of ROI can we expect from switching to Rally?
Clients typically see a significant return on investment through reduced licensing and administrative costs, faster rollouts, and improved adoption. Beyond the numbers, Rally helps eliminate the delays and confusion that come from managing Agile at scale with overly complex tools. By streamlining your planning and execution process, Rally enables more responsive decision-making and clearer value delivery. This means better business outcomes, not just better reports.
"One of the standout aspects of our collaboration was their guidance in implementing Rally Software. Icon Agility didn’t just help us adopt a tool—they ensured it was aligned with our business goals, team structures, and Agile maturity. Their consultants took the time to understand our unique challenges, coached our teams effectively, and provided tailored solutions that delivered immediate and measurable value."
- Henry Noble, Transformation Director at Vantiv, Worldpay and FIS
Still have questions?
We’ll walk you through a tailored assessment of your setup, challenges, and goals.
The Rally Experts Who Know Agile Inside and Out
At ICON Agility Services, we are not just a vendor pushing a tool. We are trusted partners in your Agile transformation. With over 20 years of experience supporting Rally and deep expertise in SAFe, Scrum, and Lean Portfolio Management, we know that success comes from more than just technology. Our team combines tool mastery with real world Agile coaching to help you adopt and use Rally effectively across your organization. We specialize in guiding large, complex enterprises through the transition, ensuring Rally supports your planning, execution, and governance at scale. The result is not just a smoother rollout, but a foundation for sustainable and high impact agility.
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