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60% willing to recommend
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87% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between Atlassian ALM and GoCD based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites.
To learn more, read our detailed Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Report (Updated: March 2024).
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The most valuable feature is the Scrum board.""The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite. We have good integration with work management with Java. This is the major strength from this provider.""This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment."

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"Permission separations mean that we can grant limited permissions for each team or team member.""The most notable aspect is its user interface, which we find to be user-friendly and straightforward for deploying and comprehending pipelines. We have the ability to create multiple pipelines, and in addition to that, the resource consumption is impressive.""The UI is colorful."

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Cons
"The reports are not really customizable, which is something that they should improve on.""The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid.""There is room for improvement in the high-level project management."

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"The tool must be more user-friendly.""The documentation really should be improved by including real examples and more setup cases.""The aspect that requires attention is the user management component. When integrating with BitLabs and authenticating through GitLab, there are specific features we desire. One important feature is the ability to import users directly from GitLab, along with their respective designations, and assign appropriate privileges based on that information. Allocating different privileges to users is a time-consuming process for us."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There is a community edition available, but if the price were lower for the addons then more people would use the full version."
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  • "It's an open-source and free tool."
  • "This is an open-source solution and it is inexpensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is the Scrum board.
    Top Answer:The pricing is on the higher side. I would give it an eight out of ten, where one is low, and ten is high.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in the high-level project management. In future releases, I would like to have a planning feature for high-level project management.
    Top Answer:Jenkins is overtaking the product. The product must enhance user experience. Jenkins has everything in a simple XML format. However, GoCD is complex. Upgrading it to a simpler language would be… more »
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    Comparisons
    Jira logo
    Compared 36% of the time.
    TFS logo
    Compared 10% of the time.
    IBM Rational ALM logo
    Compared 7% of the time.
    Polarion ALM logo
    Compared 7% of the time.
    GitLab logo
    Compared 30% of the time.
    Tekton logo
    Compared 14% of the time.
    Microsoft Azure DevOps logo
    Compared 14% of the time.
    GitHub Actions logo
    Compared 12% of the time.
    CircleCI logo
    Compared 8% of the time.
    Also Known As
    Adaptive ALM, Thoughtworks Go
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    Overview

    How to use Atlassian to manage application lifecycle: Atlassian builds software to pull together all the elements of application lifecycle management. Product management, developers, Q/A, dev ops, and business stake holders all have their own ways of interacting with application lifecycle management and Atlassian splits up the process into a few buckets.

    1) Collaborate to plan and envision work

    Atlassian's Confluence is a collaboration platform for building and driving consensus. Call stake holders in to give approval, comment on, and share pages and integrate with the rest of the development toolchain.

    2) Build and track roadmaps

    Atlassian's JIRA Software offers incredibly flexible project management with custom workflows, plugins, and high visibility rollups through JIRA Portfolio. Issues can be embedded right in confluence, or be used to kick off new branches in version control. Keep everyone on the same page with project progress. 

    3) Track and deploy code

    Atlassian's Bitbucket is the world's most robust Git solution. The ability to deploy multiple-nodes with failover, global mirroring for super fast clones, and powerful code review control set it apart from competition. Bitbucket also has a mature plugin and hooks system that allows extensions and connection to a suite of CI software. 

    4) Support and Iterate

    Track support requests, bugs, and route users in the right direction with JIRA Service Desk. With the same custom workflow engine as JIRA Software, a tight integration with the rest of the stack, and a knowledge base function make it a powerful addition to the ALM stack. 

    5) Tie it together

    ChatOps helps tie every part of the ALM together. Get stake holders in the same room to manage a project, teams in the same page to manage their work, or plugin automated members to report on CI status, pull requests, page changes in Confluence, or bug reports. Like every piece of Atlassian's ALM there is a mature API for extending plugins and everything can be hosted behind your own firewall. 

    GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers businesses a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility. It was designed for continuous delivery and the concepts essential to this practice are built in at the core.
    Sample Customers
    Facebook, NASA, Cisco, eBay, Redfin, Toyota, Kaiser Permanente, Gilt, CSIRO, Autodesk, The Daily Telegraph, CODE, Illumnia
    Ancestry.com, Barclay Card, AutoTrader, BT Financial Group, Gamesys, Nike, Vodafone, Haufe Lexware, Medidata, Hoovers
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company15%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Retailer10%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise77%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise25%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    Buyer's Guide
    Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites. Updated: March 2024.
    768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Atlassian ALM is ranked 16th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews while GoCD is ranked 14th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews. Atlassian ALM is rated 7.6, while GoCD is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Atlassian ALM writes "Scrum board feature is highly valuable and handles different user volumes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GoCD writes "User-friendly, useful multiple pipeline capabilities, and low resource consumption". Atlassian ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, TFS, IBM Rational ALM and Polarion ALM, whereas GoCD is most compared with GitLab, Tekton, Microsoft Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions and CircleCI.

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