Integrated ALM: How it can benefit your organization
Most organizations spend huge sums of money on various siloed point function tools that usually don’t work very well. The reason for that is these tools are in isolation and typically use traditional manual procedures to synchronize data that do not play well together. Integration is not usually present when it comes to choosing tools from different vendors to different lifecycle segments. For an optimum application development environment, an organization must connect these multiple lifecycle tools. Here the benefits of how an integrated ALM can benefit your organization.
- Gain Greater Insight
The lack of transparency in the regular business activities slows down the progress of development projects. All disparate tools across various functions need to be connected for the project stakeholders to share the required information. Only when the right people are on the right projects at the right time, can efficiency be achieved.
- Ratify Best practice Processes
For an organization to disseminate, implement and automate the best practices, integration is necessary. It helps to execute the processes and achieve consistency, repeatability and predictability.
To accomplish sustainable compliance, organizations need an automated and built in process through out the application development stage.
- Overcome the challenges of a globally distributed environment
Projects usually involve teams from different countries or companies with different cultures participate in application development. In such a scenario it is essential for an enterprise to accommodate
different culture and tools, while remaining connected to ensure that there is no duplication of work and compromise of productivity.
- Enable Collaboration
Collaboration between stakeholders is possible only when their tools are connected. Adequate ALM support and integration is what ensures perfect synergy in application development, as there provides visibility to the team activities. There is no wastage of time and team activities are aligned with meeting of project goals.
- Increase Productivity
Integration of the application lifecycle stages brings huge opportunities for increasing the productivity of individuals and teams as it analyzes trends and implements metrics based management best practices. It allows teams can collaborate more efficiently and effectively, eliminating human interface errors and time delays.
- Enhance Customer Satisfaction
Integration with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and helpdesk tools offers absolute lucidity on the progress of customer cases to all lifecycle stakeholders like customer support managers, sales etc. This enables the organizations to be aware of all customer issues, and also allows customers to know the status of issues and when the fixes will be deployed.
- Improve Quality
Integrating the application development life cycle tools improves the quality by reducing the number of defects due to miscommunication, catching inconsistencies between requirements etc. Better change management practices help to diminish quality issues arising out of changes in requirements, designs and code files. It is the key to understand change dependencies and impacts to optimize quality.
- Collect Actionable Metrics and Intelligence
Absence of factual insights lead to missed deadlines, budget creep and fundamental erosion of trust and goodwill in relationship. An automated metrics collection system integrated across application development lifecycle tools will provide a decision intelligence solution that delivers relevant, objective, dynamic and granular metrics needed to make smart decisions influencing cost, quality and time
- Manage Change
In application development change is inevitable. Managing and embracing change is no easy feat and organizations find it difficult to keep all stakeholders in sync with the latest changes in application development. Integration facilitates application development teams to better assess the impact of changes, track the full history, automate change propagation and reduce change reaction time.
- Plug and Play Tools
Organizations invest for different lifecycle stages they have not been able to harness the aptitude of these tools. Integrating all or most of these tools you achieve an End-to-End ALM solution resulting in increased ROI and process improvement.
Adopting one unified and automatically synchronized software will be advantageous. With application lifecycle management there will be a far larger synchronization between IT and the rest of the business to deliver the best competitive edge. An integration framework can accommodate the existing tools and processes and don’t require to retool the current processes or to commit to a particular tool vendor.
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