• IT leaders are continuously looking for opportunities to streamline the management of their application and 发展 lifecycles while assuring their products are valuable and well supported.
• Application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions are attractive solutions to help organizations streamline their 发展 and portfolio management practices and maintain 可追溯性 and transparency of the value and status of both product and 项目.
• 不同ALM解决方案的功能差异很大. Some focus on a specific domain such as requirements, test, or issue management. Other solutions are designed with a broad set of capabilities intended to cross multiple aspects of the software 发展 and application lifecycles.

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关键的见解

• 工具 are critical for the shift from a document to data-driven ALM. ALM data is currently hidden in documents and network drives. ALM solutions provide the insight needed for governance and continuous improvement of every practice.
• 组织实施ALM解决方案来管理产品 and 项目. Application teams continuously strive to increase throughput and reduce contention, 返工, and frustration when they develop and support their application portfolio. ALM solutions ensure that people have the information they need to manage the whole product, 不仅仅是一个项目或工作指令.
• 团队需要一个开放和集成的ALM环境. Teams are empowered to adopt the tools they need to address complexities and frequent changes while assuring end-to-end 工件 可追溯性. ALM vendors are positioning their products as open solutions with out-of-the-box integrations and marketplaces to allow teams to create a tightly integrated and flexible tool environment.

影响和结果

• Understand the core ALM features and the various practice focuses of key ALM players.
• Evaluate and select the most appropriate ALM vendors and solutions to satisfy your high priority project management, 需求管理, 发展, 测试, 部署, 以及问题管理需求.