Organizations that use Rally often feel the need for a tool that can easily support development management, issue tracking, and other important development issues. Atlassian’s Jira is ideally suited to provide support for the management tasks that many Rally users require. Unfortunately, the native Rally application does not support easy data transfer between the two applications. We’ll show you a few ways to bridge the gap between Rally and Jira.
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With that framework in mind, there are a number of ways that a successful Rally to Jira migration can be accomplished:
Atlassian suggests that Rally data can be exported from Rally and imported into Jira. The company recommends exporting Rally data as a CSV file. In order to create the file to be exported, go to Rally’s summary page and select the CSV option from the Actions menu. This method will save a summary page as a CSV. If you need to export all the data, rather than just a summary, then you must create a custom view and save the data as a CSV file. Jira can then import the CSV file.
If you must export issues, users, or other Rally data in addition to projects, Atlassian provides a CSV importer help file.
Using CSV export from Rally has limitations. Configuring the export and mapping fields between Rally and Jira can be difficult.
cPrimeLabs offers a migration application called the Rally to Jira Enterprise Migration Tool. This tool is offered in 12 month licensing periods, and only enables migration from Rally to Jira.
Go2Group’s ConnectALL supports the transparent exchange of data between Rally and Jira. Data can be migrated from Rally to Jira, or transparently exchanged between the systems. In addition, ConnectALL also supports transparent connection with many leading ALM tools, including HPE ALM (Quality Center), ServiceNow, IBM RTC, and other development tools. With ConnectAll, a Rally user can use Jira to manage projects and scheduling, and also exchange data with other development and ALM tools.
To learn more about ConnectALL, contact Go2Group.
Doug Bass is a certified Atlassian consultant and trainer and a certified ScrumMaster. He is an experienced systems architect with experience in distributed application design, database architecture, network design, and project management. Author of the first relational database for military applications in the UK and the first java-internet based chat application, Doug teaches classes in object-oriented design. He holds a Masters Degree in Information Architecture. He is a consulting partner for Atlassian’s product suite, and architect of several of Go2Group’s products including the CRM Plugin (JIRA and Salesforce integration), JIRA/Perforce plugin, and ConnectALL (a multi-application synchronization solution). Doug contributes his free time to the United States Power Squadron where he teaches classes on safe boating.