Top 5 advantages of integrated ALM
Often ALM enterprises end up spending a lot of their investment on a massive amount of siloed point function tools that includes requirements management tools, architecture, coding, build testing, tracking and a whole lot more. The problem with these tools is that often they end up seeming too conventional and isolated. They tend to rely on age old manual procedures to enable synchronization of data betweens tools. This is precisely why enterprises need to integrate these multitudes of lifecycle tools to enable optimum application development. Here are the top 5 advantages that integrated Application lifecycle management (ALM) brings about:
- Visibility into application development: An integrated ALM can connect in a better way allowing teams, individuals and organization to gain better insight into the application development process. This means queries of reviews, findings, requirement of corrective actions, application retesting, test cases failures, etc can be ably answered.
- Enables Global Distributed Development: Even as ALM is getting into the global space, working in disparate and different cultures can affect productivity and there can be a strong chance of duplication of work. Hence integrated ALM can help overcome such challenges effectively by ensuring tools are integrated behind firewalls and across several diverse networks overcoming structural obstacles across remote locations. This means on time delivery of projects and also within the stipulated budgets.
- Enhances productivity: Integration of ALM can bring about better implementation and can help enforce processes to ensure better productivity. Repeated tasks can be automated, reducing any kind of tedious rework. Since stakeholders are up to date with all information there is also tremendous reduction in constant travelling for meetings etc.
- Makes Delivery swifter: With shorter development lifecycle, enhanced team collaboration, elimination of errors and reduction of human interfaces, delivery becomes quicker and meeting of deadlines becomes even easier.
- Enhanced Customer satisfaction: Integrated ALM means adoption of best practice processes. This allows all developmental activities to be aligned with customer requirements. Therefore the customer will always get what he wants. In addition the customer can also enjoy real-time updates on the progress and development of the ALM support lifecycle. Owing to enhanced levels of transparency, the customer can easily trace lifecycle artifacts across the development stages.
So you can spend dollars buying the best tools but can they truly make your development process more effective? The answer is no. Without synchronization between IT and your business, you will not be able to provide enhanced value to your customers. The solution therefore is to have automatically synchronized software and collaboration system.
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