Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, software maintenance, change management, continuous integration, project management, and release management.
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Traditional accounting practices are tailor made for waterfall project management. Organizations that have transitioned to the use of standing product teams using Agile and DevOps need to transform their accounting practices as well or they will leave valuable capital expenditure dollars on the table.
Inflectra offers a complete ALM solution. Why only address part of the lifecycle? SpiraTeam has the entire process covered, from requirements, testing, tasks, code, builds and bug-tracking all integrated. Therefore, take control of your project's development and software testing.
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Plan smarter, collaborate better and ship faster with Azure DevOps Services, formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services.
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ALM Works develops products that improve application lifecycle management and software development processes. Founded in 2004 in St. Petersburg, Russia, ALM Works was an early contributor to the Atlassian ecosystem in 2007. Since then, Structure for Jira has become our flagship product—making it simpler for our customers to organize, manage, and plan complex projects. The company is growing fast, and established its worldwide headquarters near Boston, MA in 2016.
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Unified teams and platforms deliver quality software and services faster. Whether you are using formal and agile methods, reduce the high costs, inefficiency and risks of fragmented software development without compromising software quality with proven, integrated ALM solutions
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JIRA Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software.
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VersionOne® revolutionizes how teams at all levels, Enterprise, Portfolio, Program and Team, work together in complete harmony to develop and deliver software faster. Built from the top down to support enterprise agile at scale. Everyone will get the context they need to connect the dots and remain focused on accelerating software delivery.
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Manage all product development phases and artifacts—from requirements and user stories through QA cycles and deployment—with ONE SOLUTION.
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CodeBeamer ALM is a holistically integrated Application Lifecycle Management platform that offers an all-round Requirements, Development, and Testing & Quality Management feature set, and more.
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Easily coordinate every phase of your application development lifecycle—with our cutting-edge, continuous insight throughout the process. Our application lifecycle management solutions can get you where you need to go, from planning and development through deployment, management and beyond.
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Visure is a trusted specialized Requirements ALM partner for companies of all sizes across safety and business-critical industries. Visure offers specialized, innovative and user-friendly platform covering Requirements Management, Risk Management, Test Management, Bug Tracking, Traceability, Reporting and Standard Compliance, aimed to guarantee the highest quality in product development.
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Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions enable enterprises to deliver high quality applications with greater speed, agility and control. Micro Focus ALM solutions combine enterprise proven, highly integrated, technology agnostic products with an extensive partner eco-system to deliver applications with greater velocity, quality and value. The Micro Focus solution stack includes several award winning products which cover all aspects of application development and delivery.
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DevSuite is an ALM platform specifically designed to manage hybrid agile projects as well as pure agile and traditional development projects.
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Build higher-quality bots faster with Blueprint’s software solution for enterprise-scale business process automation. Blueprint’s suite of tools delivers collaborative and effective process capture, design, optimization, and automation with built-in tools for enhanced compliance management and governance.
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Beat the competition to the punch with higher value applications for your customers. Improve organization-wide productivity and development velocity. Connect distributed teams, equip them with best-of-breed tools, and scale processes that benefit your business. All while maintaining the highest standards of governance, compliance, and IP security.
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SmarteQM seamlessly integrates all these priorities, optimizing the experience of Integrated Application Lifecycle Management, or Integrated ALM; all the tools and users are synchronized with each other throughout the application development stages.
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Parasoft Development Testing Platform (DTP) enables Continuous Testing. Leveraging policies, DTP consistently applies software quality practices across teams and throughout the SDLC. It enables your quality efforts to shift left–delivering a platform for automated defect prevention and the uniform measurement of risk.
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PTC ALM Software Solutions deliver a holistic software and systems engineering approach that enables successful collaboration, automation and reuse across teams and disciplines.
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So connect your entire organization with VisionFlow. It provides a complete platform for the development lifecycle of your applications/software/products, and covers all key areas: project management, product/release planning, requirement management, task/activity management, bug/defect tracking, test management, change and configuration management, build and more.
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Keep all of your early-stage definition artifacts — user stories, requirements, mockups, wireframes, prototypes, process flows — coordinated and in sync. Integrate these early-stage artifacts with the larger ALM process: development, issue tracking, testing and devops. This allows information to flow throughout the full software lifecycle.
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Connect teams and projects, and improve application development processes with a single, unified solution for requirements, coding, testing, and release.
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Rocket Aldon Application lifecycle management software (ALM software) simplifies and automates every aspect of the software delivery process. From gathering, routing and prioritizing change requests to production deployment of application releases and updates, Rocket Aldon ALM software reduces errors, facilitates collaboration, improves productivity, and makes IT audits a breeze. It ensures that your change procedures are predictable, scalable, and repeatable.
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Kovair ALM Studio along with its integration capability provides a cohesive solution for end-to-end application lifecycle management from conception to delivery. One can use Kovair ALM Studio as a platform for creating custom business solutions or as a pre-configured, ready-to-use ALM solution.
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Orcanos is a cloud-based ALM system, that span the design control and quality management for the life science industry. Automating processes, sign-off and traceability with Orcanos, saves time and money reduces risk and assures better compliance
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Akana's (formerly SOA Software) Lifecycle Manager enables enterprises to effectively collaborate between business, developers and IT operations, resulting in rapid development and deployment cycles while increasing reliability, stability and availability of their APIs and supporting assets.
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Tuleap is the Open Source Application Lifecycle Management suite that is empowering software teams in organizations ranging from fortune 500 companies to innovative start-ups. It makes software development projects more productive, collaborative and industrialized.
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Traditional accounting practices are tailor made for waterfall project management. Organizations that have transitioned to the use of standing product teams using Agile and DevOps need to transform their accounting practices as well or they will leave valuable capital expenditure dollars on the table.
IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.
So you’ve gone Agile. You do daily scrums, retrospectives, and all the “right” Agile ceremonies. But still your organization isn’t quite convinced. It is now critical to balance the drivers and goals of both Agile and traditional thinking in order to achieve organizational success.
Do you feel like your Agile teams are treading water – going through the motions but never going anywhere? It’s a risk, and practices such as daily standups, retrospectives, and demonstrations need to be used wisely or you risk losing discipline to meeting fatigue.
Stakeholders expect the speed and responsiveness of product delivery does not come at the expense of quality. QA tools offer retailers the ability to continuously ensure both business and technical quality standards are upheld, but these tools should not be viewed as a silver bullet.
No matter how good your product roadmap and backlog are, they are only as good as your audience’s ability to understand your vision and priority.
The scrum master is like the conductor of an orchestra, ensuring that every piece fits together at the right time to create something greater than the sum of the parts. You don’t have to know how to play each instrument, but you do have to understand what each part contributes to the overall masterpiece.
Tools are important to product teams, but only when they support solid people and processes.
Aha! introduces scenario planning to give product owners the ability to create and compare multiple release approaches based on team capacity and backlog priority.
If an image is worth a thousand words, a visual roadmap will save you a thousand hours.
The application portfolio management (APM) tool space can be a confusing one, as many software vendors offer their own take of what APM is. Enterprise architecture, application management and project portfolio management tools offer an APM use case, but these are often quite skewed the primary function of the tool.
Kovair continues to enhance its product suite with the introduction of version 10.0. The updates cover its Omnibus, ALM Studio, and QuickSync products.
ProductPlan makes a strong case for excluding features from your product roadmap. Instead, develop your roadmap using strategic themes.
GitHub has announced that, effective April 14, 2020, all of its core features will be free for everyone. This will include private development within organizations that have previously paid for some subscription plans.
Almost a decade has passed since Marc Andreessen’s article “Why Software Is Eating The World” passionately defended the rise of software and its potential to disrupt every industry. The ensuing decade has proven his thesis to be true.
OpsHub, a provider of integration and migration solutions for ALM and DevOps tools, has offered a free edition of tits integration solution OpsHub Integration Manager.
Rally Software has changed ownership several times in the past decade and organizations wonder what will become of the notable ALM tool. The recent updates show that its current owner, Broadcom, wants Rally to remain competitive in the ALM marketplace.
The recent release of Zephyr 6.6 (Standalone Edition) focused on improvements to its administration, automation capabilities, and usability. SmartBear’s 2020 acquisition of Test Management for Jira (TM4J) from Adaptavist demonstrates its focus on building its testing capabilities.
TestRail supports the coordination, management, and communication of software testing activities of QA teams. Releases 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 enhance the testing experience with enhanced interfaces, integrations, and management capabilities.
Continuous delivery (CD) requires an integrated toolchain to automatically push checked-in code into production. IBM’s Engineering Lifecycle Management solution consolidates the key capabilities needed to support CD into a single, integrated platform.
Product management should not replace project management. They are complementary and are both integral to enabling the frequent delivery of business value.
Being Agile requires a change in focus on the skills that we value. While face-to-face contact is generally preferred, it is not always possible. This does not mean that being Agile is not possible, but it does require a different level of focus.
BizDevOps transforms product delivery into a team sport that is centered around collaborative and collective ownership of delivery using the best of Agile and Lean development methods.
We live in a metrics-fixated world where having more metrics is always thought to be better than having less, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) metrics are no exception. But the truth is that any badly chosen or managed metric will do more harm than good to your organization. To avoid these pitfalls, take ownership for SDLC metrics away from managers and put it into the hands of those who can best manage it: your development teams.
Microsoft will end Support for Office 2010 on October 13, 2020. It’s now time to think hard about your next steps and put together an upgrade plan to a newer version, like Office 365 Pro+ or Office 365.
Tools alone don’t make great requirements. Requirements are a team sport and the team must collectively own and commit to delivering them for BizDevOps to be successful.
“Being Agile” enables the delivery of the right value at the right time. When most people talk about delivering the right value at the right time, they think about the core technical skills required in the action of delivering software. This is only part of the Agile software delivery pie.