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Agile Manager [EOL] vs Atlassian ALM comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Agile Manager [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Atlassian ALM
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (16th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user739560 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior manager IT at a transportation company
Handles user stories well but the lack of a testing module is a problem
Right now I can't say because other stuff is being migrated to Octane. But basically, the testing module that we are used to, that wasn't there at all. If they would have added that into it then they wouldn't even need to build Octane. We did have a list of items we wanted to see added but now they are moving all those things to Octane, and we are also interested in Octane now, so we are not looking to request any more changes to AGM, understanding that this is the go-to tool.
BRIANJOHNSON2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independant Consultant at B&H Designs Ltd
Long-term testing workflows have improved integration of test planning and defect tracking
The deployment depends on whether you are deploying it on your computer or across the program. Cloud-based system deployment takes some time, as it depends on your rights to your computer. I would rate the deployment as a seven on a scale of one to ten. It took a couple of hours to get it right. The IT department deploys it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has a good sprint task board with the ability to export tasks to Excel and filter by team member, and all the graphs, burndown charts and reporting are user friendly and quick."
"With all of the different features, it's really user-friendly and syncs with Quality Center ALM, which is our testing tool."
"We use the hierarchy Theme/Feature/Stories for a top-down approach, and the widgets/dashboards are essential to easily setup the reporting and by putting an image on the data, it helps people to understand the issues or to see the potential impacts of their actions."
"The product is really easy to use and manage single discrete projects with dedicated teams."
"To me, the difference between what they're using now, the Atlassian product, and Agile Manager is that Agile Manager is much more scalable."
"This solution gives us flexibility in product testing and allows us to get our products with very quick time-to-market."
"Burn-up charts for visibility on progress and workload."
"You can pretty much tie in from your requirements all the way through your entire application lifecycle management, and we are able to achieve that using this solution."
"As a general purpose tool, JIRA and Confluence are still ahead of the competition."
"The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite, and we have good integration with work management and software build automation (Bamboo), which is the major strength from this provider."
"If you can spend the little effort to configure Jira to support your more complex requirements management, then you can concentrate everything in one tool."
"The Atlassian ALM suite consists at least of JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket and HipChat - just the tools you need for organizing your teams in a very efficient way."
"The most valuable feature is the Scrum board."
"The interface between the repository and test plan stands out as valuable, and I appreciate building the tests and scenarios in Test Lab and the ability to link defects throughout the system, which Atlassian ALM does better than any other testing products."
"In Bitbucket, the reviews are pretty good."
"This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment."
 

Cons

"This one kind of caught us by surprise, and all our evaluations from it doing demos to the team that was going to be using it."
"The testing module that we are used to, that wasn't there at all."
"Downtime was frequent initially, but now it is much better."
"In the world of Java, it currently supports Eclipse but not NetBeans."
"There is definitely a maturity curve that Agile Manager needs to go through with. It's still not there, and it definitely needs to grow."
"The user interface could be modernized to be more intuitive and to support more drag/drop functionality."
"This product does not fully cover the SDLC. The test team cannot track test cases or connect them with test cases."
"Understanding of story points and velocity, ease of using reporting/dashboard widgets, and templates for imports need improvement."
"Confluence is just a super-inadequate tool for editing documents."
"However, it is not really scalable, so if you want to use it for anything larger or plan to use it for product portfolios, then it starts to be problematic."
"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."
"For project management, the scheduling of the project tasks should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid using the Atlassian Portfolio."
"The solution is stable but at times, the performance is poor. It takes time to load and the response time is not up to the mark."
"Atlassian ALM is too expensive. The pricing is very expensive."
"All Atlassian products are based on JAVA which makes it a bit difficult to trace problems if you don't have much JAVA skilled staff around."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
21%
Educational Organization
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
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Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise2
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Atlassian ALM?
Atlassian ALM is too expensive. The pricing is very expensive.
What needs improvement with Atlassian ALM?
I am still not satisfied with the requirements area of Atlassian ALM. Atlassian ALM has four parts: test plan, Test Lab, requirements, and reporting. The requirements portion continues to be an are...
What is your primary use case for Atlassian ALM?
I have been using Atlassian ALM for twenty-five years. It used to be called Quality Center, and I first used it in 2000 and 2001. The company changed, but the product remained. Atlassian ALM has no...
 

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