(Rally: Boulder, CO) -- Rally, a provider of Agile application life-cycle management (ALM), recently announced new filtering features and performance metrics in its AgileZen product. New, user-defined filtering makes it easy to focus on and measure the most important work items. In addition, through Rally’s new nonprofit discount program, educational and nonprofit organizations now receive a 50-percent discount on Unlimited, Plus, and Pro AgileZen accounts with a one-year service commitment.

“The whole value of kanban is visualization, so we’ve added new filtering features without sacrificing the simple, elegant way AgileZen visually represents your work in process,” says Niki Kohari, product manager for AgileZen at Rally. “Board filtering is much more effective at managing multiple lines of work on one board than the ‘swim-lane’ techniques some tools use.”

New, user-defined filtering makes it easy for users to focus on what’s most important by fading or hiding content that doesn’t apply to a filter. Filtering also enables users to:

• Filter by colors, tags, owners, priority, story size, and text

• Toggle between fading or hiding information

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