Tuleap is an

application lifecycle management Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, ...

system which focuses on

agile software development Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to software development, developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by ''The Agile Alliance'', a group of 17 software practitioners, in 2001. As documented ...

while supporting other approaches towards

project management Project management is the process of supervising the work of a Project team, team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project initiation documentation, project documentation, crea ...

developed and maintained by Enalean, a French tech company founded in 2011 and headquartered in France. It is

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

, released under the GNU General Public License, version 2, and aims to rival proprietary tools like

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, Jira and

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(and the

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Suite), and Crucible.

Features

Tuleap is a software platform for

that supports various development methodologies including Agile, V-model, traditional or hybrid or custom processes. It helps organizations meet project management standards such as

Capability Maturity Model Integration Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process level improvement training and appraisal program. Administered by the CMMI Institute, a subsidiary of ISACA, it was developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). It is required by many ...

(CMMI) and

ITIL ITIL (previously and also known as Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a framework with a set of practices (previously processes) for IT activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) that focus ...

. Tuleap facilitates the planning of software releases, the prioritization of business requirements, the assignment of tasks to project members, the monitoring of project progress,

requirements management Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requ ...

IT service management Information technology service management (ITSM) are the activities performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control IT services offered to customers. Differing from more technology-oriented IT management approach ...

, and the creation of reports. It provides site-wide trackers and real-time reports on risks, requirements, tasks, bugs, change requests, support requests, and user stories. It supports

Kanban Kanban ( meaning signboard) is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing (also called just-in-time manufacturing, abbreviated JIT). Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency. The ...

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, and hybrid methodologies in

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. Tuleap has a built-in risk management system. Tuleap integrates forge system functionalities to manage software sources using

Subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to sabotage the established social order and its structures of Power (philosophy), power, authority, tradition, h ...

Git Git () is a distributed version control system that tracks versions of files. It is often used to control source code by programmers who are developing software collaboratively. Design goals of Git include speed, data integrity, and suppor ...

or CVS. Teams are able to share technical or project documentations, track bugs, and centralize communications with internal and external parties.

Reception

In 2018, Opensource.com named Tuleap one of the top 7 open source tools for Agile Teams. It also named it one of the top 5 open source project management tools in 2015. InfoWorld magazine awarded it the "Best Open Source Application Development Tools" (the Bossie Awards) in 2013. Tuleap is used by Fortune 500 companies, small and medium enterprises, and open source projects. Notable users include:

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, the

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(CEA), DSI of

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, and the

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