Best Value Stream Management Software for Startups

Jellyfish

Jellyfish is the leading Engineering Management Platform, providing complete visibility into engineering organizations, the work they do, and how they operate. By analyzing engineering signals from Git and Jira, qualitative team feedback, and contextual business data from roadmapping, incident response, HR, calendar, and collaboration tools, Jellyfish enables engineering leaders to align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software, efficiently, on time. With Jellyfish, engineering leaders can focus their teams on what matters most to the business, driving strategic decisions and delivering results.

276 Ratings

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GitLab

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.

14 Ratings

Starting Price: $29 per user per month

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ReleaseIQ

ReleaseIQ helps companies accelerate software product release cycles while improving quality and efficiency with an Enterprise DevOps Platform that leverages existing CI/CD tools, if present, and: - provides visibility into every step of every pipeline, from commit to production, delivered in role-focused dashboards to ensure that all stakeholders have the same information in near real time. - integrates orchestration with intelligent diagnosis and troubleshooting to dramatically increase productivity and reduce MTTR. - highlights actionable insights to empower teams to drive continuous improvement.

3 Ratings

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CodeNOW

Stratox Cloud Native

CodeNOW is the DevOps platform for businesses that want the same excellence in software delivery as digital leaders without the large IT investments and the distraction from their core business. CodeNOW is listed by Gartner as a DevOps Value Stream Delivery Platform (DevOps VSDP), which Gartner sees entering the mainstream in 2023. CodeNOW is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic DevOps VSDP that helps companies deliver natively scalable, highly available, resilient digital services that run safely on multiple clouds. CodeNOW integrates into a single cohesive product over 40 battle-tested open-source multi-point solutions (Gitlab, Swagger, Karate, SonarQube, Nexus, Tekton, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and more) and covers the full software delivery life cycle. CodeNOW customers experience no vendor lock-in nor maintenance costs (PaaS model). They do more with the team they already have vs. recruiting of extra expensive, hard-to-find DevOps engineers

1 Rating

Starting Price: €9 per month

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LinearB

We correlate and reconstruct Git, project and release data to provide real-time project insights and team metrics with zero manual updates or developer interruptions. LinearB’s Software Delivery Intelligence platform analyzes hundreds of signals every minute from your Git and project systems to highlight where you can do the most good for your team. Software Delivery Intelligence helps dev teams continuously accelerate delivery by correlating development pipeline data – code, git, projects, CI/CD – to provide visibility, context and workflow automation for every member of the team.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $15 per dev per month

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Code Climate

Velocity provides in-depth, contextual analytics that equip engineering leaders to support stuck team members, address team roadblocks, and streamline engineering processes. Actionable metrics for engineering leaders. Velocity turns data from commits and pull requests into the insights you need to make lasting improvements to your team’s productivity. Quality: Automated code review for test coverage, maintainability and more so that you can save time and merge with confidence. Receive automated code review comments on your pull requests. Our 10-point technical debt assessment provides real-time feedback, so you can save time and focus on what matters in your code review discussions. Get test coverage right, every time. See coverage line by line within diffs. Never merge code without sufficient tests again. At a glance, identify frequently changed files that have inadequate coverage and maintainability issues. Track your progress against measurable goals, day-by-day.

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Allstacks

Allstacks uses machine learning models to analyze SDLC data for delivery risks and projected outcomes for engineering leaders. Our value stream intelligence platform illuminates insights across all your projects and tools. We gather and analyze past work data and behavior from the tools your team is already using, like Jira, GitHub, and Bitbucket. Getting started takes less than two minutes. Allstacks aggregates all of your tools and data into a single platform so you can accelerate your engineering team’s ability to ship great software.

Starting Price: $400/per contributor per year

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GoCD

ThoughtWorks

Easily model and visualize complex workflows with GoCD. GoCD’s value stream map shows your entire path to production in a single view. Easily navigate across jobs, spot inefficiencies, and optimize your process. No plugin required, out of box CD. GoCD streamlines your CD workflow on popular cloud environments such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and more. GoCD excels at modeling complex CD workflows for fast feedback with its modeling constructs, parallel execution and dependency management. GoCD helps you troubleshoot a broken pipeline by tracking every change from commit to deploy in real time. Compare content - both files and commit messages - across any two arbitrary builds. GoCD integrates with many popular external tools and services via its extensible plugin architecture. We have put a lot of thought into making sure GoCD upgrades are painless and non-breaking even when you are using plugins. There are numerous high-quality, curated plugins currently available.

Starting Price: Free

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Codebeamer

PTC

codebeamer is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform for advanced product and software development. The open platform extends ALM functionalities with product line configuration capabilities and provides unique configurability for complex processes. Empower product teams in industrial manufacturing and automotive engineering. Optimize the delivery of complex automotive technology and industrial manufacturing products. codebeamer is a complete lifecycle management solution with all-in-one requirements, risk, and test management capabilities.

Starting Price: $102 per user per month

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Jile

Tata Consultancy Services

Jile is an Enterprise Agile planning and delivery product on-the-cloud that enables software teams to manage, automate and measure the end-to-end software delivery value stream from ideation to deployment. With Jile, teams can choose an Agile Way of Working (WoW) template that best fits their delivery needs, and then customize their WoW by turning applications on or off from a list of more than 50 applications and features. The WoW templates in Jile include Scrum, Kanban, Disciplined Agile, Large Scale Scrum, Agile Portfolio, and more. This flexibility provides an adaptive and tailored way for organizations to adopt Agile at scale across the enterprise, and digitally transform into a Business 4.0™ enterprise. Jile enables enterprises in any stage of their Agile transformation journey to grow and continuously evolve by making it easier to plan, develop, and deliver high-quality software—which accelerates value delivery—and supports innovation, reduces time to market.

Starting Price: $9 per month per user

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HCL Accelerate

HCL Technologies

HCL Accelerate is the value stream management platform in the HCL Software DevOps solutions set. It provides tools to help you understand your DevOps practices, implement changes, review change impact, and automate release processes. All these tools are managed from a single user interface. HCL Accelerate helps you get the most out of your DevOps investments by improving throughput, identifying bottlenecks, and unifying data from across your organization so you can make intelligent business decisions.

Starting Price: Free

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Sleuth

Sleuth Enterprises

Track software deployments through your remote team's complete DevOps stack. Improve uptime and stop change-related incidents before they ship. Provide you and your stakeholders visibility into the value of your releases with historical metrics and dashboards highlighting performance trends over time. Get full visibility and reporting across your team’s entire DevOps stack.

Starting Price: $30 per month

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Panaya

End to End SaaS Test Management Tool Designed to Ensure Business Process Quality in Your ERP. Panaya Change Intelligence provides an end-to-end test management SaaS platform designed for business process validation, reducing test cycles by up to 50% while ensuring zero defects after the go-live. Gain real-time visibility over all test cycles, including large scale testing projects and UAT campaigns, and standardize testing processes by having both business users and IT adopt the same testing methodology. Automatic migration of your existing test scenarios (MS Excel, Word…) in 48 hours for a quick and easy onboarding.

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Faros AI

Faros AI connects the dots between your engineering data sources – ticketing, source control, CI/CD, and more – giving unprecedented visibility and insight into your engineering processes. Be amazed at what you can achieve with Faros AI. With Faros AI, engineering leaders can scale their operations in a more data-informed way — using data to identify bottlenecks, measure progress towards organizational goals, better support teams with the right resources, and accurately assess the impact of interventions over time. DORA Metrics come standard in Faros AI, and the platform is extensible to allow organizations to build their own custom dashboards and metrics so they can get deep insights into their engineering operations and take intelligent action in a data-driven manner. Leading organizations including Box, Coursera, GoFundMe, Astronomer, Salesforce, etc. trust Faros AI as their engops platform of choice.

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Logilica

Logilica is the software engineering intelligence platform for fast moving software development teams. Fusing DevOps and Git analytics Logilica enables software leaders with distributed teams to deliver faster, more predictably. One-click connectors and APIs to your existing platform tools to ingest engineering data without moving a finger or filling in a spreadsheet. Prebuilt reports and analytics for humans. Track and optimize your investment effort, risks, and delivery speed. Effortlessly, automatically. Benefit from our open ELT data pipeline to ingest your own data, define your own metrics and dashboards, and create custom insights in minutes. See predicted delays, where to unblock processes, and how to improve delivery flow.

Starting Price: $33/user/month

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Plandek

Plandek is an intelligent analytics platform that empowers software engineering teams and leaders to deliver value faster and more predictably. Celebrated by Gartner and Forrester as a 'leading global vendor', Plandek mines data from delivery teams’ toolsets and gives them the opportunity to optimise their delivery process using both intelligent insights and predictive analytics. Co-founded in 2017 by Dan Lee (founder of Globrix) and Charlie Ponsonby (founder of Simplifydigital), Plandek is based in London and currently services the UK, Europe, the Middle East and North America.

Starting Price: $1900 per month

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visTABLE

plavis

By using visTABLE® software, you can visualize the entire process. In manufacturing, value stream mapping helps identify waste by analyzing each step of material handling. The software allows to map the current state, apply lean principles to define the future state and to reduce the effort spent on non-value-adding processes. Improvement backed by VSM has never been easier. Lean thrives on visualization and transparency. Gain key figures about the current state. Based on the method of value stream mapping, the software helps to perform a logistics-oriented value stream analysis. Capture all of your value streams according to the line-back principle. The display of the map is automatic. If you add or remove processes or change transports, your VSM automatically adapts and maintains the optimal display. Provide your management with key figures on flow, value-adding processes and inventories.

Starting Price: €249 per user per month

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neuro

Harness your data from your toolchain to create high-performing engineering and quality teams. neuro provides complete visibility of your engineering and quality performance. Close the gap between insight and action to increase velocity. Set user-defined goals to track progress, identify roadblocks, and align engineering and quality teams with business priorities. Deliver consistency across your portfolio. Address the challenge of managing dependencies among teams, especially third parties. Provide rapid reporting across your tool stack. Smart dashboards provide greater insight and remove administrative overhead with automated reporting. neuro delivers across enterprise, digital, and agile landscapes to transform engineering, product, and quality management. We help leaders eliminate waste, realize value, and align decisions with business priorities and goals to deliver results. Fast integration to optimize your existing tool stack.

Starting Price: $45.99 per month

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Maxium

Going beyond lines of code or the number of commits. Teams attempting to track developer productivity are more likely to complete their assigned tasks on time. The median S&P500 company suffers from significant losses per employee due to low productivity. More than one-third of engineering leads found it difficult to measure developer efficiency accurately. Standardized evaluation mechanism, irrespective of how diverse your tech stack is, to provide an accurate measurement of shipping velocity. Get access to a custom-built dashboard to track the shipping velocity of your engineers across different teams. We standardize the code evaluation mechanism across different programming languages. We provide you with an engineer performance index by which we compare your engineers with your industry peers of the same attributes. Understand how much of your engineers' time goes to fixing bugs or unplanned work.

Starting Price: Free

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DevDynamics

The all-in-one engineering management platform with metrics, AI insights, developer surveys and automations. ‍Metrics like DORA, cycle time, and flow. Measure velocity, quality, productivity and more. Connect all the tools from your tech stack. Integrations with GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, PagerDuty and more. Create custom metrics easily with our metric builder UI. Set up dashboards to match your engineering org’s needs. Understand things that require attention like bottlenecks, best practices, team issues etc. ‍Get reports covering important metrics and insights for your teams. Configure reports to stay informed on your team’s progress and priorities. ‍Understand how your team’s time is spent—whether on new features, KTLO, or unplanned work. See engineering costs to deliver important initiatives and client work.

Starting Price: $15 per contributor per month

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iObeya

Break down silos and align global teams across all layers of the enterprise, reducing time-to-market and improving customer satisfaction. Digitize any business performance system or Agile framework to accelerate adoption, increase efficiency and facilitate governance. Limit travel and significantly reduce time and effort preparing and animating your huddle or stand-up meetings while safeguarding human interactions. Enhance ideation and brainstorming for co-located or multisite teams to empower innovation, collective intelligence and cultural change.

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Clarive

Clarive Software

Start your DevOps Journey, make application delivery easy with a simple, powerful and unified workflow. The road to continuous delivery starts here. Clarive is the first tool to deliver an integrated experience to both Dev and Ops. Define and schedule your milestones, quality gates and releases to match your product goals and ideas. Package source code or any artifact into changesets that support any review, test or deployment workflow. Follow your release progress through stages and environments while collaborating and iterating on kanban boards and topics. Automate release pipelines to provision infrastructure, resolve dependencies and deploy components. Ideal for Dev teams that want to get started with lean delivery and the right workflow. Replace redundant tools and save time and money. Ideal for Ops teams looking to centralize all delivery processes, coordinate silos and resolve application dependencies.

Starting Price: €2 per user per month

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SAP LeanIX

SAP

SAP LeanIX delivers collaborative EA designed for modern IT. Our open, data-driven architecture management model helps organizations adapt to the evolving demands of digital. From agile to multi-cloud and beyond, architecture teams using LeanIX have the power to strategically support the business and report 45% reduction in time to value delivery. More than 90,000 users across enterprises worldwide rely on LeanIX to manage their IT landscape, including adidas, Bosch, 7Eleven, and Zalando. The foundation of any good IT repository is well-organized, consistent and interconnected data. Thanks to functionalities like LeanIX's Excel Import, its integrations with other IT Management Applications and open APIs, bringing data into the system is a quick and easy process. Linking Business Capabilities with Applications is essential for Enterprise Architecture repositories. These relationships can easily be established in LeanIX by importing both raw or already related data via Excel.

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Capstera

Capstera is a business architecture and capability modeling software which enables enterprises to model their current and desired business capabilities with rich semantics and leverage these as Lego blocks to compose products/ initiatives, overlay them with value streams and processes, and capture requirements to evolve capabilities. It supports all key components of the business architecture and more. Capstera business architecture and capability modeling software allows users to build a capability map and decompose the capabilities into deeper levels of granularity. In addition, Capstera allows users to capture rich semantic information to communicate the essence of a capability. There are multiple views available to review and refine. A rich set of tools provide the user an ability to annotate, bookmark, embed sub maps, and conduct health checks.

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Haystack

Ship faster and improve team satisfaction with engineering analytics powered by your GitHub data. Analyze pull requests on the team level and get “NorthStar” metrics like cycle time, deployment frequency, and change failure rate to help you improve delivery. Quickly find bottlenecks like code review, experiment with changes like smaller pull requests or automated tests, and see the result.

Starting Price: $25/Month/Dev

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Copado

The first DevOps Value Stream Platform for Salesforce. Learn more about Copado’s transformative Winter ’21 release. Copado DevOps delivers a continuous stream of value from your cloud platform to your business’s bottom line. Build release pipelines to deploy Salesforce metadata and seamlessly synchronize all of your orgs. Simplify sprint and feature planning with user stories, epics and integrations with Azure DevOps, Jira and more. Leverage built-in quality gates and testing automation to improve quality and ensure compliance. And do it all on the secure, trusted Salesforce Platform. Measure and monitor with DevOps 360 Analytics and continually improve agile adoption and processes with Value Stream Maps. Our flexible architecture allows you to work with the version control, ALM and automation tools you already use. With the #1 Native DevOps solutions for Salesforce, teams see value in weeks, not months or years.

Starting Price: $10,000 per year

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Harness

Use each module independently with your existing tooling or use them together to build a powerful unified pipeline spanning CI, CD, STO, SRM and Feature Flags with metadata enhancing cloud cost management. AI/ML are at the heart of every Harness module. Our algorithms verify deployments, identify test optimization opportunities, make cloud cost optimization recommendations, restore state on rollback, assist with complex deployment patterns, detect cloud cost anomalies, and trigger a bunch of other activities. After a deployment, sitting around staring at logs and dashboards sucks. Harness analyzes the logs, metrics, and traces from your observability solution and automatically determines the health of every deployment. When a bad deployment is detected, Harness can automatically rollback to the last good version.

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Propelo

Find your high points and overcome hidden bottlenecks. Actionable insights to improve efficiency and agile velocity in every stage of your DevOps lifecycle. Connect data across Jira, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, SonarQube & many more. Software metrics and insights for agile velocity, quality, security and data hygiene. Customizable dashboards with the ability to roll up or drill down into details. Build high-quality products faster, deliver customer-centric outcomes. Improve data hygiene, drive process efficiency. Build a culture of collaboration and appreciation, improve retention. Monitor quality of requirements definition, acceptance criteria, agile sprint plans. Automate issue routing & task reminders, reduce unproductive wait times. Early risk warnings on sprint slips. Make decisions based on customer impact. Timely reminders to accelerate PR reviews & merges, improve velocity. Conditionally automate repeated task sequences, reducing cognitive overload.

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pipeline.green

With features such as easy integration, slow job detection, visual insights, date range summary, and job breakdown, you can streamline your workflows and improve performance. Track pull request status, identify slow jobs and get detailed information with direct links to Github, all in one place. Our platform provides clear visibility of your workflow runs with charts for each job, including successful, failed, skipped, or canceled runs. Get a comprehensive summary of workflow runs for a given date range, making it easier to track progress and performance over time. Keep track of the status of your pull requests, ensuring your workflows are running smoothly and efficiently. Track which Github commit is in production, giving you real-time insights into your workflows.

Starting Price: $5 per month

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Axify

Axify offers innovative features based on the latest trends and research in software engineering, designed by a development team for development teams. Our algorithm creates accurate delivery estimates based on your team's activity while giving you valuable insights into process issues that may impact delivery times. Quickly see what your teams are working on, how much time is allocated to development activities, and task alignment with corporate objectives. Get all your engineering metrics in one place to make informed decisions, align your development teams, and improve your software delivery processes. By automatically collecting data across your entire software development lifecycle, you'll get a clearer picture of your team's progress, allowing you to prioritize more effectively. Monitor engineering metrics and key performance indicators. Get an overview of resource allocation in your development team.

Starting Price: $500 per month

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Compare the Top Value Stream Management Software for Startups as of April 2025

What is Value Stream Management Software for Startups?

Jellyfish

GitLab

ReleaseIQ

CodeNOW

LinearB

Code Climate

Allstacks

GoCD

Codebeamer

Jile

HCL Accelerate

Sleuth

Panaya

Faros AI

Logilica

Plandek

visTABLE

neuro

Maxium

DevDynamics

iObeya

Clarive

SAP LeanIX

Capstera

Haystack

Copado

Harness

Propelo

pipeline.green

Axify

Best Value Stream Management Software for Startups

Compare the Top Value Stream Management Software for Startups as of April 2025

What is Value Stream Management Software for Startups?

Jellyfish

GitLab

ReleaseIQ

CodeNOW

LinearB

Code Climate

Allstacks

GoCD

Codebeamer

Jile

HCL Accelerate

Sleuth

Panaya

Faros AI

Logilica

Plandek

visTABLE

neuro

Maxium

DevDynamics

iObeya

Clarive

SAP LeanIX

Capstera

Haystack

Copado

Harness

Propelo

pipeline.green

Axify

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