Tuleap is an

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system which facilitates

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, design projects,

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, Requirement Management, and IT Services Management. It is

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and released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Tuleap is an enterprise alternative to proprietary tools like

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, Jira (and the Atlassian Suite) and

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

Overview

Tuleap is a software platform for

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using development methodologies including Agile, traditional or hybrid or custom processes. It helps organizations meet industry standards like

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(CMMI) and

ITIL The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of detailed practices for IT activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) that focus on aligning IT services with the needs of business. ITIL de ...

. Tuleap facilitates the planning of software releases, the prioritization of business requirements, the assignment of tasks to project members, the monitoring of project progress, and the creation of reports. It features site-wide trackers and real-time reports on risks, requirements, tasks, bugs, change requests, support requests, user stories. It supports

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, Scrum, and hybrid methodologies in project management. Tuleap has a built-in risk management system. Tuleap is used by Fortune 500 companies, small and medium enterprises, and open source projects. Its users include developers at major companies like

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. Notable users: *

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* CEA, the

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* DSI de l’ Université de Grenoble *

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* French Government VITAM programme * OpenForge, Ministry of Electronics and IT,

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* Portuguese Public Institute *

Features

Tuleap integrates forge system functionalities to manage software sources, using

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or CVS. Teams are able to share technical or project documentations, track bugs, and consolidate communications with customers, developers or third parties. Tuleap's kanban tool enables teams to create task boards on the fly. Agile scrum workspaces can also be created.

Awards

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.

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