Rally migration to Jira

[Yi Meng]

Hi Community,

I'm on Jira Cloud. And I'm going to make a migration project from Rally to Jira. Before starting the migration, I want to get some suggestions from the community. What's the best approach to migrate from Rally to Jira? Any idea about potential risks? 

Thanks,

Yi

[OpsHub - Enterprise class Integration and Migration Solutions for Jira]

Hi @Yi Meng

CSV imports may seem simple, but they come with serious pitfalls that can derail your migration:

• Critical links between work items, attachments, and fields are often left behind.
• Key dependencies, and history won’t transfer over – leaving teams working on incomplete data.
• CSVs lack tools to fix issues or recover from failures – your migration could stall or fail entirely.

If you want a smooth migration with no headaches, OpsHub Migration Manager (OMM) is designed to help teams migrate data with zero business disruption.

It’s easy to set up, resolves conflicts automatically, and ensures your data stays intact—even when things get complex. This means a stress-free move to Jira, without the risks of lost data or costly fixes.

If you need more help with this, I can get you in touch with OpsHub’s migration expert right away. Best of luck with the project!

[Valerie Knapp]

Hi @Yi Meng , thanks for your question. Please check out some of the other posts about this topic

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Migration-from-rally-to-jira/qaq-p/2508647 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Rally-to-Jira-Migration/qaq-p/930170 

If you think you will need help, you can also reach out to an Atlassian Partner in your area - https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/ . Atlassian partners can specialise in migrations so they would have a lot of experience supporting different types of migrations but of course it depends on your use case, how much to migrate and the configuration of your Jira instance.

Best wishes

[Yi Meng]

Hi @Valerie Knapp 

Thank you for the reply. 

Yes, I will go and check those posts. It seems like CSV is the simplest way to migrate data. But I need to check what they want to keep during the migration. 

As for the partners, that's a good idea. But I need to check with my manager to see if we have the budget. haha.

Thank you again and have a great day!

[Valerie Knapp]

You're very welcome!

Good luck with your investigations and migration.