Application Lifecycle Management

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a set of principles and tools that integrate people, processes, technology and information from every perspective of the software development process including:

  • Governance
  • Project management
  • Requirements management
  • User experience
  • Architecture and design
  • Coding
  • Code quality and testing
  • Quality assurance
  • Configuration management
  • Deployment and operations

With well-defined ALM, your team is better equipped with greater project visibility to equip you to complete software development projects on time and on budget, while delivering high quality applications that help support business goals.

ALM helps solve common application development challenges

Many software development organizations face challenges such as:

  • Lack of visibility into project status—ALM  and tools such as Visual Studio Team System provides a single unified view of the project that helps enforce responsibility, accountability, sign-offs, and checkpoints.
  • Ineffective team communication—By coordinating efforts across functional, geographic, and organizational boundaries, ALM helps align everyone with the overall business goals and give people access to the information they need.
  • Balancing business demands with project risk—Better project management from the outset helps define objectives properly and makes estimation more accurate, while minimizing the impact of changing requirements, scope creep, and complex and rapidly evolving technology.
 

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