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Atlassian ALM pros and cons

Vendor: Atlassian

3.7 out of 5

8 reviews
71% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Atlassian ALM integrates seamlessly into agile product management, excelling in combining different Atlassian tools. It offers robust Java-based work management and a valuable Scrum board. Users benefit from effective Test Lab scenario building and efficient defect linking. However, its reports lack customization, automation is complex, high-level management needs enhancement, scalability for large projects is limited, and pricing is high.

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PROS

Atlassian ALM fits well into agile product management environments.

The main power is integration between different Atlassian suite products.

Good integration with work management using Java is a major strength.

The Scrum board is a particularly valuable feature.

The interface supports building tests and scenarios in Test Lab effectively, linking defects throughout the system efficiently.

CONS

Reports are not customizable and need improvement.

Automation for scheduling software and testing is complex and rigid.

There is room for improvement in high-level project management.

Not scalable for larger projects or product portfolios.

Pricing is considered very expensive.

Atlassian ALM Pros review quotes

Independant Consultant at B&H Designs Ltd

Dec 10, 2025

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.

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CEO at byte

Oct 31, 2025

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.

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R&D Director, CTO at CSDN

Jun 20, 2023

The most valuable feature is the Scrum board.

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Director Software R&D at Fluid Data Services

Mar 24, 2020

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.

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Venugopal Kulasekaran

Product Delivery Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Feb 25, 2020

This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment.

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Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Aug 11, 2016

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.

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Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 11, 2016

In Bitbucket, the reviews are pretty good.

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Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 5, 2016

As a general purpose tool, JIRA and Confluence are still ahead of the competition.

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Atlassian ALM Cons review quotes

Independant Consultant at B&H Designs Ltd

Dec 10, 2025

Atlassian ALM is too expensive. The pricing is very expensive.

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CEO at byte

Oct 31, 2025

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.

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ZX

R&D Director, CTO at CSDN

Jun 20, 2023

There is room for improvement in the high-level project management.

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Director Software R&D at Fluid Data Services

Mar 24, 2020

The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid.

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Venugopal Kulasekaran

Product Delivery Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Feb 25, 2020

The reports are not really customizable, which is something that they should improve on.

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Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Aug 11, 2016

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.

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Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 11, 2016

Confluence is just a super-inadequate tool for editing documents.

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Chief Operating Officer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 5, 2016

Frankly it's a really daunting exercise - challenging, problematic and very flaky.

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