Effective ways to enable your ALM ecosystem
It is only after CIOs of enterprises forge mergers and acquisitions that enterprises can restructure a development group that has tools from different vendors and this includes internal tools as well. So how does an enterprise actually manage a software development project across a diverse set of functionally, geographically and technologically distributed groups which have its own set of tools yet functions as an information island as far as other tools are concerned? The problems that arise when different tools become separate silos of information is that often there will be a case of redundant and often conflicting information in multiple tools this will increase errors. Furthermore the lack of process across the tools can be a problem since it is highly unlikely that these processes are integrated and synchronized with each other. Coupled with issues of zero traceability between information locked in individual tools and usage of manual methods of tracking, visibility will also reduce dramatically since information maybe locked in an individual tool which may remain invisible to the rest of the organization.
The panacea to these problems is to have an Integration bus technology that will allow a multi-tool integration in bus architecture which may save enterprises money spent over Ad-hoc point-to-point integrations. Also it presents the opportunity to synchronize between two tools for a particular entity which helps keep all the information current in both tools. It also enables integration between multiple tools managing the same type of Items, for instance a transparent synchronization among multiple Requirements Management tools will keep the particular users of each tool aware of what is happening in the other tools. It also gives you the freedom to decide when and what to replicate across different tools, for instance not all Requirements need to be replicated from the Requirements management tool to the Test management tool but only those which are approved. Additionally it enables federation of data in terms of getting the data from other repositories on-demand.
Also engaging a Task based Process engine will allow sequential as well as parallel workflow paths with path merge capability and will also ensure complex branching logic which can accommodate automatic control of flow. It will also ensure that events from various tools are also received and it will trigger actions for them. Additionally it enables both micro as well as macro process by synchronizing among various micro processes. So what an enterprise needs are ALM solutions that can ably map between Objects in the Integration Bus and External tools so that it can define multiple Objects of various kinds and be able to map them to the objects in the External tools including attributes, methods, and policies.
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