Hi Jim,
In addition to the sandbox workspace method mentioned by Mitch (also my preferred mechanism), you can also request for a duplication of your subscription be made to our sandbox.rallydev.com machine stack. This stack has no guaranteed up-time (i.e. outside of our SLA), so is really only for this type of experimenting. The advantage is that it will have a copy of your live data, in all its glory - mistakes as well. The disadvantage is that you will have to make a record of the changes you have made and then do them again to the production environment - there is no backwards direction. This is usually a good thing because the production env has moved on and any changes are not reflected in sandbox.
Another (dis-)advantage is that an organisation can ask for two sandbox backups per year and they wipe any data that is already there. Sandbox copies can be requested by your subscription admins to our support team. They will schedule them in and notify you of a possible date of completion.
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Nik
Rally Sales Engineer
Rally Software
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-03-2020 11:26 AM
From: Jim Smith
Subject: Demo or Dev Environment to aid in Rally adoption
While we continue to evolve our Agile process and integrate with Rally, does anyone know of a way we can use a demo or development environment to help prove out internal process changes while integrating into Rally without impacting our production environment of Rally?
This would be very helpful to gain support and further adoption from team members if they can see our current process mapped out further in Rally as it provides additional context helping with the overall change management process.