Manage the complexity of today’s highly distributed apps and frequent deployment cycles. What matters more, the vendor score or the product score? As you weigh the importance, we will generate the vendor shortlist to match your needs. Your Challenge IT leaders are trying to effectively manage the full development lifecycle concurrently with web, cloud, and mobile while ensuring communication remains intact and decision-making metrics are available for early mitigation. The cost of ALM licenses puts pressure on the budget-conscious IT leader. Our Advice Critical Insight ALM tools must manage across diverse platforms to support all phases of the lifecycle from requirements through to deployment and maintenance. Traceability must be integrated to the extent that any change in requirements triggers an automatic alert or notification of the impact. Customizable reporting capabilities allow organizations to gather metrics specific to their business and critical to their development. Impact and Result Choose the right range of features for your development scenario. Keep communication lines open across distributed teams while maintaining control over the development lifecycle towards rapid release management.

1. A shift left strategy is already at play with vendors offering the means to better coordinate multiple teams, release cycles, customizable workflows, and integrated
business decision making unique to their organizations.
How did we get here?
Different teams tend to use different processes to manage development activities. The need to abstract the processes and aggregate performance data is essential.
Shorter development lifecycles have been putting pressure to ensure communication between team members remains strong.
The need to track multiple release schedules and operational changes concurrently required strong pipeline management.
Understand where we are now:
Release management supports concurrent short lifecycles:
Release management continues to strengthen with ability to conduct concurrent releases all traced within the pipeline back to requirements.
Virtual test lab management aims at both convenience and test lifecycle reduction:
The ability to more closely approximate production environments removes some guesswork in performance gaps. Provisioning separate labs using virtualization and
automation speeds up concurrent functional testing.
Emphasis on policy and compliance:
Business stakeholders have the ability to assess launch risk based on policy and measured aggregated metrics from all domains within the SDLC. With full stack solutions
offering integration with multiple competing solutions, aggregate data points are available to decision makers.
with multiple competing solutions, aggregate data points are available to decision makers.
Know where we are going:
With shorter development lifecycles, the ability to automate parts of the SDLC are critical in supporting quality and consistency.
With many popular open source tools being used as point solutions within the SDLC, we expect to see continued integration between ALM tools and popular open source
tools.
Deployment options to cloud will continue to increase.
Incremental cluster releases for better workload management.