Visual Studio & ALM Assessments

If you want to improve your organization’s software development capabilities, you have to understand where you are before you can determine where you want to go.

Imaginet has developed Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) assessments based taking a 360 degree view of all roles and practices involved in the software development cycle. These assessments measure results aggregated from you and your contributors to provide you with a comprehensive ‘snap-shot’ of your development roles and practices today.  After reviewing the assessment, we help identify development practices that can help you improve.

Benefit: We will measure the effectiveness of your current development processes in platform-agnostic terms and then, after taking the assessment, use your results to prioritize your IT investments to implement best ALM practices.

Who Should Participate?

  • Assessment Sponsor: Should have high enough level of responsibility and oversight to sponsor and drive change in alignment with the business (example: VP).
  • Assessment Owner: Should be someone with day-to-day ownership for implementing any changes, who can select the right mix of contributors to provide a meaningful view into the organization (example: senior-level management).
  • Assessment Contributors: While the roles will vary by capability selected for the assessment, it is important that the assessment owner select contributors from all roles that are stakeholders in the success of any particular capability. For example: for the ALM/Development capability, roles might include Team Lead, Dev Group Manager, Lead Architect. Director of Development, Developers, Product Managers, QA & Test Engineers, DBAs, Project Managers, Usability Designers, Web Interface Designers, Marketing, Technical Writers, Systems Architects, Solution Architects, MIS staff, Operations staff, Support Engineers.

Time Required:

Creating a new assessment should only 3-7 days depending on the size of your development organization.

What to Expect:

Once you and your contributors have completed an assessment, you be able to:

  • Review an accurate profile of your development organization from an ALM perspective (baseline)
  • Expose a list of existing development best practices
  • Uncover opportunities for improvement
    • Identify the most impactful areas to the business and development team
    • Utilize a preliminary road map based on areas of priority to implement improvements.