Gain Greater Insight into Application Development with ALM
The lifecycle of any application comprises of different phases such as idea, design, development, testing, deployment and management. Usually, application development organizations spend a fortune in buying expensive function tools to manage requirement management, architecture, coding, build, testing, tracking, release management and more. In addition, these organizations spend a great amount of their time in training their employees in using these tools. However, even after that, they fail to get full value out of these investments. This is because even though the organizations are equipped with best of breed tools for different phases of the application lifecycle and well-trained employees there is no effective collaboration and synchronization between the different tools to ensure consistent quality.
In a typical application development environment, the different stakeholders such as business analysts, architects, developers, testers and managers have no idea regarding the overall application development activities and status. They work in isolation using siloed point function tools that include Requirements Management tool, Test Management tool, Issues Management tool, Risk Management tool, Release Management tool, Project Management tool, Document Management tool, Test Automation tool, and Debugger/Profiler. Since all are working towards developing a high quality software application, lack of collaboration and integration between the various stakeholders hurt the quality of the software application developed badly. Last minute surprises prove costly and affect the overall software application development process causing irreparable damage. Such a situation can be overcome using Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution.
Application Lifecycle Management or rather ALM according to Forrester is “the coordination of development life-cycle activities, including requirements, modeling, development, build,and testing, through:
- enforcement of processes that span these activities;
- management of relationships between development artifacts used or produced by these activities; and
- reporting on progress of the development effort as a whole. “
ALM helps application development companies to produce software applications of high quality at a faster rate. ALM manages the life of an application or applications throughproper and continuous monitoring, development and maintenance. It does not manageany single activity of a lifecycle management process; instead, it synchronizes various development activities to develop high quality software applications in a timely manner and for a reasonable cost.
Thus, ALM integration helps the various stakeholders gain greater visibility into the progress and quality of development projects by providing them up-to-date real-time information also integrates disparate tools together.
Irrespective of whether the project is developed in the office next door, or by a facility 10,000 miles and 10 time zones away, ALM helps organizations to develop applications that match not only with business requirements but also with all internal and external requirements.
Hence, instead of investing in siloed tools, companies must invest in ALM software to fast track their business success.
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