:Application lifecycle management

ALM is a broader perspective than the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which is limited to the phases of software development such as requirements, design, coding, testing, configuration, project management, and change management. ALM continues after development until the application is no longer used, and may span many SDLCs.

Modern software development processes are not restricted to the discrete ALM/SDLC steps managed by different teams using multiple tools from different locations.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}} Real-time collaboration, access to the centralized data repository, cross-tool and cross-project visibility, better project monitoring and reporting are the key to developing quality software in less time.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}

This has given rise to the practice of integrated application lifecycle management, or integrated ALM, where all the tools and tools' users are synchronized with each other throughout the application development stages.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}} This integration ensures that every team member knows Who, What, When, and Why of any changes made during the development process and there is no last minute surprise causing delivery delays or project failure.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}

Today's application management vendors focus more on API management capabilities for third party best-of-breed tool integration which ensures that organizations are well-equipped with an internal software development system that can easily integrate with any IT or ALM tools needed in a project.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}

A research director with research firm Gartner proposed changing the term ALM to ADLM (Application Development Life-cycle Management) to include DevOps, the software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops).{{cite web|title=Gartner blogpost|date=2011-12-02|url=http://blogs.gartner.com/tom_murphy/2011/12/02/should-we-stop-using-the-term-alm/}}

Some specialized software suites for ALM are:

• Application Lifecycle Framework
• Business transaction management
• Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
• Systems development life-cycle
• Software project management
• Comparison of project management software
• Bug tracking system
• Forge (software)

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• {{cite book|title=Application Management: Challenges - Service Creation - Strategies|first1=Frank|last1=Keuper|first2=Christian|last2=Oecking|first3=Andreas|last3=Degenhardt|first4=Gabler|last4=Verlag|year=2011|isbn=978-3-8349-1667-9}}
• {{cite book|first1=Walter|last1=Linnartz|first2=Barbara|last2=Kohlhoff|first3=Gertrud|last3=Heck|first4=Benedikt|last4=Schmidt|title=Application Management Services und Support|publisher=Publicis Corporate Publishing|year=2004|isbn= 3-89578-224-6}}
• {{cite web|title=Gartner Market Scope for ALM 2010|url=http://www.gartner.com}}
• {{cite book|title=Agile Application Lifecycle Management|first1=Michael|last1=Hüttermann|publisher=Manning|year=2011|isbn= 978-1-935182-63-4}}

• Chappell, David, [https://web.archive.org/web/20141207012857/http://www.microsoft.com/global/applicationplatform/en/us/RenderingAssets/Whitepapers/What%20is%20Application%20Lifecycle%20Management.pdf What is Application Lifecycle Management?] (PDF), archived from the [http://www.microsoft.com/global/applicationplatform/en/us/RenderingAssets/Whitepapers/What%20is%20Application%20Lifecycle%20Management.pdf original] (PDF) on December 7, 2014
• Gartner Analyst Sean Kenefick, [https://www.gartner.com/doc/1942914/market-profile-application-life-cycle Market Profile: Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) Tools, 2012]
• Margaret Rouse, [http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/definition/application-lifecycle-management application lifecycle management (ALM)]
• Dave West, [https://www.infoq.com/articles/Integrated-ALM Integrated ALM Tools Are Fundamental to Success]
• Dominic Tavassoli, [http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Integrating-application-lifecycle-management-ALM-processes-provides-additional-benefits Integrating application lifecycle management (ALM) processes provides additional benefits]
• Zane Galviņa1, Darja Šmite, [http://www.bjmc.lu.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/lu_portal/projekti/bjmc/Contents/770_1.pdf Software Development Processes in Globally Distributed Environment]

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