Integrated Application Lifecycle Management
Integrated application lifecycle management is a totally integrated set of tools and processes that help organizations manage the entire lifecycle of an application development. It connects different teams, activities, platforms, tools, and processes involved in a software development project.[1]
Challenges of Integrated ALM[2]
Introducing and implementing Integrated ALM in development organizations is not easy for following reasons:
- Multi-vendor tools use various technologies such as command line interface, desktop application, client-server, or web based that run on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, and UNIX.
- Software being produced uses a wide range of technologies such as .NET based desktop application, Java based web application, or a COBOL based mainframe application.
- Tools use various data repositories such as proprietary file structures, XML, Excel, or relational databases of various flavors.
- Tools are geographically distributed as the development groups and team members from multiple corporate entities are.
References
Further Reading
- Integrated ALM Tools Are Fundamental to Success InfoQ
- Integrating application lifecycle management (ALM) processes provides additional benefits Techtarget
- White Paper -10 Benefits of Integrated ALM Kovair